More Ink, Charcoal Portrait Practice

I did some more practice sketches. using techniques from the Petits Portraits and Wandering Muse classes, in my mixed media sketchbooks this week. Some in charcoal and Stabilo Pencil, and one in India ink. I used photo references from Pinterest on some, but you would never know, because they look nothing like the photo! 😁 I wasn't trying for that. Just practicing features and shading.

A couple are from pausing a taped movie on TV to sketch from. The last three are in the new Arteza sketchbook, which has thicker pages. I used ink on one side of the page, and charcoal/stabilo pencil with water on the other. Unfortunately, the ink child bled through onto the woman's face. I wish I had made a picture of the woman before I sketched the child! I was able to tone down some of the bleed through with a white stabilo pencil, but not all of it, so, it is what it is. I still like her!

Lesson learned: The thicker pages in the new books will still only accept light washes of ink and water! I tend to get heavy handed with my liquid paint, so I'm going to cut some large sheets of watercolor paper, that I've had for years, into small pieces and make my own sketchbook. It needs using anyway, and I don't see myself doing any large watercolors anytime soon, if at all.

Keep creating, despite what all is going on in the world! It's good for your nerves, and the world needs all of the beauty it can get! 💖