Location 1980 January 12th

Model was Toni.

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This was a 5 minuter. Had a few others and this was the best. It ended up with a good 3D feel to the pose.

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15 min. pose. The scribbles in this drawing and the next are pieces of tumble weed.

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15 min. pose.

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15 min pose. I did the initial sketch in the studio, but finished from a photo ref. Pose of the head was a little different from the photo ref, so I tried to work a little from imagination. Face doesn't really resemble the model. I was trying to capture a sultry look that was sometimes on her face while she was posing, but I think the eyes should have been more hooded.

Location 1980 Meetup August to January 5th

On my return to going to oc meetup, I continued with trying to learn to do pen drawings.

This is one of my first attempts at a doing the undraped figure in pen. I really like how the portrait ended up and haven't really duplicated the same shading since.

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An attempt to use the same shading as above. The face wasn't as heavily shadowed. I found the speed of the pen across the paper really altered the quality of the line. I can very easily move the pen faster than the ink can flow to create a nice even line. Using this I can vary the width of the line a bit.

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Sort of got three different styles of drawing on this page. The top two drawings are done with my brush pen. I like the expression I managed to capture on the portrait.

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I think this was a 15 minuter. I like how the shading turned out on this one. Moved the pen fairly fast for the shading.

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Starting to find a couple more tones. Wish I had taked a reference photo for this one, so I could finish the hair

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This is a fairly small drawing. Only used a quick sketch. This was another 15er. Like how the shading worked on this one.

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The first one I finished from reference. I think this was an hour pose. I like how the shading came out in the middle, but am not sure about the unity of the whole pic. Hair probably needs shading.

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Really like how this one turned out. A lot of people that night had some nice drawings of this pose. I think I would have toned the face differently if I did it again. Maybe just lighter.

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I like the shading on the left boot.

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I like the expression here. Decided to use only two tones for flesh. I didn't get a photo ref, so I didn't really finish the arm.

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Same night as above. Finished with a G nib instead of the Sakura pigmas. Has a more organic feel because of it.

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Really like how this one turned out.

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Night was too cold for undraped. I also forgot my camera to take photo refs, so I mostly finished these on site.

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Next three are 5 min. sketches. Somehow they turned out pretty interestingly. I'm not sure how much was me and how much was the model. Will try to use the brush pen more on the quick poses.

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More Sketchbook drawings

I'm really starting to get a handle on how to shade with these pen drawings.

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watercolors

Watercolors mostly ref'ed from Fashion Gone Rogue

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moleskine drawings

Some old moleskine ink drawings, done after the drawings from the last post.

Materials:

Used kuratake manga ink for most of the drawings. Some sakura pigma micro 05 or 005. Also used kuratake brush pen with platinum carbon ink.

One interesting note is that my white pen, uniball signo, dissolved the manga ink.

Also discovered that platinum carbon ink would come off when erasing a good bit when erasing on the moleskine paper. I used this to create a mid tone in some of the drawings.

Refs:

All references were collected off the internet. Some from lookbook, some from the free people site, some from who knows where.

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