Portraits

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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Nathan In Colour

My first exercise with these new markers was to trace out the picture I'd drawn of Nathan  a couple of  months ago and apply a bit of colour to it....

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Nathan

This is the result of one of the exercises in Keys To Drawing by Bert Dodson.  It's a portrait of one of my kids in the style of Henri Matisse.  I...

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Father And Son

That review of Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain is coming soon, I promise!

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Career Woman

You're probably wondering what happens to all the pieces left over from the jig-art.  Do the remaining pieces ever fit together into something good?...

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