Speed Sketching: Drawing with Dylan
Day Twenty-Four of my 365 Day Sketch Challenge
Continuing with day Twenty-Four of my #Kick365 sketching challenge to draw people in ink and watercolour. A quick multi-pose study of a fidgeting little boy, and a speed sketching event on zoom.
Urban Sketching People
I was waiting outside the shoe repair shop and there was a pre-teen boy sitting on a chair waiting for his mum. His limbs seemed too long for his body and he looked really awkward trying to get comfortable, and I just had to stop and try and sketch him with continuous lines.
He moved around a LOT, and I almost abandoned sketching him after the first initial sketch, but I had another two attempts, before he moved on. I don’t love these for their likeness, but I really like the hunched and sulky body posture in the sketch on the upper left, and as a set of studies, I think they work.
Next time I do a live sketch of a wriggle subject, I’d try to capture more of the line of action in his posture, before continuing with the continuous line sketch. This boy got is some fabulous positions, and I really wanted to capture the contortions, but he just fidgeted and moved too much.
I was going to paste over these loose sketches with a piece of watercolour paper, because I didn’t want to mess my sketchbook up. But when I got home, I decided to see what they’d look like with some watercolour on them. I like how adding the same colours on each, really helps to create some continuity/relationship between these three studies.
Live Zoom Portrait Speed Sketching Session
Every Tuesday Dylan Sara hosts a live Zoom Portrait sketching event, and I’ve been pretty diligent about attending this two hour session every week the past couple of months. The poses range from 30 seconds to 6 minutes, and there’s usually a theme for the pose prompts.
I’m still trying to figure out the best way to add the portraits to my new speed sketching sketchbook. Today I cut strips of watercolour paper, and this seemed to work pretty well, and it made me confine my portraits to a specific width.
I used my Staedtler pigment liner 0.05, and an N95 Tombow dual brush pen to add some tonal values. I couldn’t resist adding the occasional wash of watercolour or watercolour pencil for a splash of colour.
You can find out about Dylan’s online zoom event, and many others, in a summary post about online sketching events.
