Day Fifteen to Seventeen of my 365 Day Sketch Challenge

Continuing with day fifteen to eighteen of my #Kick365 sketching challenge to draw people in ink and watercolour. It has taken about a week to eke out four days of sketches because I’ve been ill, and no strength for pencil-pushing or brush-swishing! So it was a little bit of a disappointing sketch finale for the end of the year, but it’s all going to change tomorrow! New Year. New Health. New Inspiration.

Drawing Earthsworld Challenge

I did today’s Drawing Earthsworld Challenge from Facebook. I wasn’t really feeling in the mood, but I was really happy with how this little tonal sketch turned out. I desaturated the photo on my phone, and then increased the contrast, and used a light tombow grey pen (N95) to add some tonal variation to this pigment liner 0.05 ink sketch.

These other two Earthsworld Challenge portraits were from last week, that I didn’t get around to publishing. I was away over the holiday, and only had a few snippets of time each day where it was quiet enough to get my sketchbook out to scrawl a quick portrait.

I liked the disjointed, broken, unconnected lines I used for the hair on both of these chaps. I want to keep this style choice going in future people sketches, because I think it looks more natural and erratic for hair.

Sketch from Photo

I took a photo while I was out for some last minute Christmas food shopping. I wanted to use it to create a journal entry sketch as a memory of my trip away. I fully intended to do more of these journal sketches. But I got sick, and I only got around to doing one sketch. Better than nothing though!

This story/journal sketches are a great way to capture a moment in time. Obviously it’s best to do as many of these sketches as you can from life, but when that’s not possible, the next best thing is to take a photo and sketch from it later.

Not only is it good sketching practice, it captures uneventful moments, and makes them memorable.