Colored pencil portrait studies – sktchy app

This time I did few practices using just colored pencils. I used for the first time Strathmore Bristol smooth surface paper (270GSM). It was quite nice, very smooth and strong. I cut the sheet into four pieces, but I have just two of those drawn at this point 😛 (posted in the end). I wanted…

Oops I did it again – masking fluid fun

Yes. I managed to do it again. Even though I used different (schmincke) blue masking fluid than what I previously used and on a different paper (I now used my last sheet of Canson Moulin Du Roy, Hot pressed). (Water color painting – Forest spirit) I was a bit hesitant whether I want to mask…

Water color painting – Forest spirit

So, this painting was for a course assignment. Actually a topic I have been planning on painting as a series but not in this context originally. Topic for the course was spirit and matter in your own art. I am not that spiritual nor try to convey any more meaningful message in my pieces, but…

Colored pencil – flower

Yet another colored pencil draw along to Kirsty Partridge’s patreon tutorial Using Solvent with Coloured Pencil : Beginner Coloured Pencil Tutorial Series So first time using solvents. It was used to especially blur the background but to also blend the flower. I grabbed some pencils based on the tutorial listing, considering differences prismacolor, vs. luminance…

Colored pencil portrait practice

I made this drawing during work trip (after work in hotel). A draw along to Kirsty Partridge’s patreon post ‘Coloured Pencil Portrait | 5 Pencil Challenge- Real Time Tutorial Series‘ So there was used only five different color pencils for the piece, no blenders. Used pencils (Faber-Castell Polychromos): Dark naples yellow (yellow), Pale Geranium Lake…