Lee Davey, The MacMaster

Now then my friends, I am in the Kent village of Hartlip and I’m here to show you the fifth in my collection of marker portraits if YouTube creators. Ā This is Lee Davey who, as The MacMaster has a YouTube channel where he reviews food joints in the U.K. and, occasionally the US or Benidorm. Ā Another food channel worth mentioning is Danny Malin’s Rate My Takeaway, which is the sort of positive and entertaining experience that you need sometimes. Ā Lee’s channel is the one I prefer out of the two: I just find him a bit more discerning when it comes to both his choice of outlets and the marks that he awards out of ten.

So I have a Lee Davey portrait here. Ā Before we go any further, take a closer look my friends.
The plan today was to make this another fairly monotone painting with black, red and pink as the main colours. Ā Maybe orange or yellow at a push. Ā I started with the black marker, putting in all the darkest shapes. Ā That went pretty well. Ā And I decided to use the purple marker to put in the shadow on the plate. Ā Controversial! Ā Does purple belong in an analogous red palette? Ā Let me know in the comments section below.
But then I went on to the reds and pinks and things started to fall apart. Ā It was the reds and pinks just donā€™t work on their own and I found I needed to bring in more colours. Ā So I added some yellows and oranges in the lightest places. Ā And used some greys to neutralise some of the more garish reds and pinks. Ā And I glazed over all the skin areas with a couple of different flesh tones. Ā But I wanted this to be more about the reds and pinks, so I also put in some complementary colours: the blue in the sky and the green in the t-shirt.
It all ended up a lot more colourful than the red and pink portrait that I’d planned and I may need to rethink the colour scheme for the final portrait in the collection. Ā Maybe that last one could just be in red, no other colours. Ā I’ll have to think about that.
As for this one, the likeness isn’t really there and the hands are an eyesore. Ā Sorry Lee. Ā This one’s comfortably worst of the collection so far and won’t be going in the shop window, although Lee can have it for free if he wants it. Ā And while it’s not great in its own I think it fits in well with the rest of the collection and adds to the synergy.
And that’s me done. Ā I’ll see you guys in the next one. Ā Goodbye.

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