The post promotes live online portrait drawing sessions, emphasizing their benefits for developing observation skills and hand-eye coordination. It provides a schedule for various sessions hosted by artists like Chloe Briggs, Dylan Sara, and Kirsty Lockhart, detailing the days, times, and costs associated with each session.

Today’s Earthworld portrait challenge resplendent with bath teeth.

Sharing my admiration for loose style portrait artists Felix Scheinberger, Ulrike Selders, and Roz Stendahl, noting their vibrant use of color. Currently practicing Stendahl’s techniques, I share reflections on two portraits created in her style.

Being commissioned to create a birthday sketch inspired me to explore the art of caricature.

Blind Contour Sketches for my 365 days of portrait and people sketches

The beginning of my Kick in the Creatives 365 day sketching challenge. Where I’m committing to sketching people for a year. In this first batch of sketches I eased myself into this challenge by doing blind contour portraits in pencil, and finished off with some line detail and watercolour. With a lot of accentuated (and comical) teeth.

A Van Gogh self portrait at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art was the inspiration behind my passion to sketch. His painting was full of movement and emotions, and he was able to convey both movement and emotion in this one painting. It inspired me to start copying his self-portraits in charcoal and pastels to improve my portrait sketching style

Watercolour and pen self-portrait with a face mask.

Looking back at a Bob Marley sketch I did back in Los Angeles, discovered in an old iPhoto library I’d forgotten about. #TBT