I’d been moving away from just doing portrait studies, and wanted to do some wider drawings too, and doing a scene in colour seemed nice, especially after enjoying the previous one in black and white. It didn’t quite come out how I wanted it, but there’s still limitations to drawing like this (mostly in pencil, with the skin base layer and roses done with my brush pens)
First study with the monotone/grey pencils on the grey paper. Would get slightly more range on white paper but there’s more warm and cool grey pencils available so I could always get a bigger range. I do like this paper though, and I’m looking forward to doing some colour pencils on it, as well as maybe ink and mixed media!
Pad is Paint On Mix Media Gris, by Claire Fontaine.
Pencils are Polycolor by KOH-I-NOOR Hardtmuth.
Photo from Pinterest of Lidia Savoderova
Endless Love Creative host themed life drawing events in my shared workspace, Union Street in Sheffield city centre. I’ve been to quite a few in the past but Coronavirus and the lockdowns caused them to stop for a while. These are some of my drawings from that night.
Stuart Herrington Illustration 