I had my first go at Sky Portrait Artist Of The Week today. Award winning author Bernardine Evaristo has been sat there on a Facebook feed while...
Portraits
Paul Dirac
I'm on a roll. Where there's a Fermi, there has to be a Dirac. Unfortunately this one isn't as good. I had some trouble with Dirac's left eye...
Enrico Fermi
It's time to start a new series of portraits. As I felt good about drawing all those chess players, I'm going to go for another intelligent bunch...
2020 FIDE Candidates Tournament – The Collection
And here's the collection. This is the format in which I want to get them all framed. and that may mean getting a specialist framer to at least...
Fabiano Caruana
And here it is, the last one in the collection. It's world number two Fabiano Caruana. I thought I'd go for a bright green background as that...
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
And today's second portrait is Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. A longer shot, this one, with more of the body showing (looking for variety). The first...
Anish Giri
It's the weekend and I'm back to drawing portraits of the with players in the FIDE Candidates tournament. Today it's Anish Giri, a player with a...
Ding Liren
And next up is world number 3, Ding Liren. He's not doing too well at the candidates with just 2.5/7 at the point the tournament was paused. I...
Alexander Grischuk
Still tearing through the players at the 2020 FIDE Candidates tournament, starting today with Alexander "Sasha" Grischuk. He's drawn all seven of...
Wang Hao
My last chess portrait for the day. I really should have stopped at two. This portrait is instantly recognisable as my work but not so instantly...
Ian Nepomniachtchi
Next up is joint tournament leader Ian Nepomniachtchi, generally referred to as Nepo, although I don't know whether people call him that to his...
Kirill Alekseenko
Being stuck inside all day, I don't see much hope for doing many watercolours for a while. And with me actually having a piece of work on a the...
Henry Fonda, Once Upon A Time In The West
Back on the markers again and, for whatever reason, I've developed a taste for drawing portraits. Today, though, rather than looking for photos of...
Two Self Portraits
All these portraits I've been rattling out with markers and I only just realised that I've not done any self portraits with the markers yet. Time...
Cathy
I've fallen into a trap. Now everybody wants me to draw their portrait on their birthday. This weekend it was Cathy's birthday and this is my...
Lizzie
It's also Lizzie's birthday today, so here's another portrait. I think this is more recognisably Lizzie than Amanda was Amanda. You can see from...
Amanda
I'm quite getting into this portrait drawing with markers, although I still have a long way to go before I can call myself anything near...
Clive
Another portrait. This is Clive the bantering butcher from the local farmshop at MB Farms (http://www.mbfarms.co.uk/index.html) in Stockbury,...
Jimbo
More Tuesday portraiture and it's another bassist and Facebook friend. This is Jimbo, a mate from school, bassist with grungy rock duo Matildaz...
Roy With A Beard
It's Tuesday and Sky Portrait Artist Of The Year is on later, so I was in the mood for a bit of portraiture. Obviously using markers. I'm nowhere...