Brown paper drawings

Here's a collection of brown paper drawings, including some unsold ones from OIC portrait days. Pencil, poster colours, ballpoint pen and white correction pen on brown paper.

Maybe, smitten. The boy in yellow made it to the August Portrait Day poster. Hooray! This was my first test using poster colours for the colour edition of portrait day. I used coloured markers at the last session, but now favour poster colours as they have more dimension - flexibility with opacity, introduction of whites and option to mix colours while wet.

Pink and Superhero.


From August portrait day. I skipped the correction pen and used white poster paint instead. Outlined in black ball point.

From August portrait day. A very beautiful french family. Mother was glowing, dad was handsome and little girl was tres jolie! It was a challenge trying to finish three and also the little girl was moving about a lot. Used pencil instead of ball point.

My favorite from the July portrait day.

Blue period: a girl and a cat

Sketched from a magazine reference. Pen and blue added in photoshop.


Another picture of Fluffy minus her calico colouring. Calligraphic pen and colour added in photoshop.

Still happily loving this beautiful sky blue, so you'll be seeing more of my blue palette ;)

Fluffy

Calico coloured Fluffy is the sweetest cat around. Living in Li-Anne's office for the moment, her clients adore Fluffy. Me too! :)Fluffy's heading to New York soon with her owner, so Li-Anne and I are trying to capture as many photos and drawings of her before she goes. This is the first one - more to come! Fluffy sleeping - in pen and poster colour.

Two dudes at HMV

Pencil sketch of two guys I noticed at HMV last night.
Contrast adjusted when I zapped the sketch.

Aidan

My colleague's little boy. Traced and adapted from photo. Still learning how to use my first Intuos tablet (very fun!)...hope to do more - and improve on digital portraits.

Sketchwalk, 29 June

Sketches from Bras Basah to Little India. Thank you, Drew for organising!
Branches and trees from the overhead bridge to Burlington Square....and then there was the blue scooter resting under a tree. Pen with colour added in Photoshop.
Sign-o-rama in Little India.
Candy colours on the corner of Clive and Campbell Lane. Blue sky added in Photoshop.

Poolside manner

Trying out a new style and colour palette. Acrylic on wood board. 24" x 18".