Category Archives: drawing
Plein Air Painter
This Week’s Head Sketches #4

Drawing: Small Brook in a Garden

Van Gogh Drawings
I found these two prints of van Gogh drawings in an used&antique store. I spotted them the moment I walked in the door. The drawings are professionally framed by O.M. Knudsen in Oslo.
On the back there are labels that say in Dutch and English:
Arenlezende Boerin, 1885, Woman Gleaning
Maaiende Boer, 1885, Peasant Reaping Corn

Drawing: Woman in Long Dress

Drawing: Cabin in the Woods

Plaster Cast Portrait Drawing

Tree drawing in black chalk

Man chiseling wood

Drawing: Violin player

Drawing Sold: Summer flowers

Drawing: Old Man sitting on a stool

Still life

Bob Dylan

Leather Boots

Head Drawing
Here is another drawing copied from the book Drawing the Head and Hands by Andrew Loomis. I took pictures with my mobile phone of some stages of the drawing. The paper is white but somehow appears gray on the camera. I like the feel of the Hahnemuhle nostalgie paper in combination with charcoal pencils.
Charcoal pencil on A4 Hahnemuhle nostalgie paper
Procedure

Drawing the Head and Hands

Some Comic Heads

Some more comic heads…

TV Portrait sketch
This is a sketch from a still image on the TV. I just sat down with my laptop, tablet and sketchbook pro in front of the TV and started drawing.
I then quickly colored the sketch with the copic markers in sketchbook. It’s amazing how fast you can turn out sketches with this setup.
Here is the sketch: