6 minute speed sketch of Klaus
Day Fifty of Sketching People
Continuing with day 50 of my #Kick365 sketching challenge to draw people in ink and watercolour. Meagre pickings today on the sketching people front, as I got distracted with tutorials, but I did manage to attend the second half of Dylan’s speed sketching portrait session on zoom.
Speed Sketching with Dylan
Tuesday is the live 2 hour zoom speed sketching event, Drawing with Dylan. I was doing an Oliver Hoeller tutorial tonight, and didn’t want to break away from it to do speed sketching portraits. But then I changed my mind, and joined Dylan’s session when they were already on six minute poses.
I started out with some tonal portraits, but then needed to add some colour. I’d originally coloured the centre portrait using watercolour, but then I chose three Tombow pens in light blue, lemon yellow, and red. I like using a limited colour triad set. And these Tombow are so easy and quick to use.
The tonal shading on the faces were done in Tombow brush pens too. I remember doing lots of urban sketching at airports when I was traveling, with just ink and Tombow for spot colour, and I’d forgotten what an impact a limited set of vibrant colours can have.
I’m glad I joined the last hour of this speed sketching session. The few portraits I managed to sketch turned out well. I especially love my sketch of Klaus. I’ve sketched him quite a few times before, and he always has such a drawable pose.
When you’re using Tombow brush pens you have to be quite careful because they bleed easily when you add a colour right next to it. I colour his glasses red, before I’d added some grey tone around his inner eye, and the red glasses bled. So any elements with bright colour need to be added last, when the rest of the surrounding area is dry.
