Category Archives: faces

Next door

Posted on December 26, 2020 by Ed Mostly

(Apologies for the recent lack of posts. Lockdown etc has broken/changed/started many habits, including a drastic reduction in my use of social media, which is probably a Good Thing. The daily drawing from life continues in spite of it all) … Continue reading →

Posted in faces, pencil, people, portrait | Tagged M Pop Muzik, pencil portraits, sketches of neighbours | 10 Comments

Wonky, skew-whiff, bockety, odd

Posted on November 17, 2019 by Ed Mostly

Last week I accidentally wandered into cubism through blind-drawn continuous-line selfies… I recommend having a go, they only take a minute and the results are so strange that you can’t make any ‘mistakes’. Hold a pencil ready to draw on … Continue reading →

Posted in blind drawing, daily drawing, faces, line drawing, pencil, self-portrait | Tagged blind drawing, blind drawn selfies, continuous line drawings, continuous line selfies, The Contours | Comments Off

‘Cheer up, it’s already happened…’

Posted on December 20, 2017 by Ed Mostly

A commitment to daily drawing from life (six years so far…) often means relying on late night selfies. Here’s the latest collection of around fifty (!), with the usual apology for the severe/odd/blank expressions. The first batch were all done … Continue reading →

Posted in collections, daily drawing, faces, fude pen, self-portrait | Tagged daily drawing, Sailor Fude pen, selfie sketching, sketching self-portraits, The Specials | 5 Comments

You be illin’

Posted on January 7, 2017 by Ed Mostly

Sketching daily selfies can capture all sorts of things… Here’s six days when I went from the depths of a cough/cold to relative wellness, moving from grey fountain-pen to black/brown marker-pen, gaining colour while apparently shedding a few years in the … Continue reading →

Posted in collections, daily drawing, faces, marker pen, self-portrait | Tagged daily sketching, Gram Parsons, marker pen portraits, sketches of illness, sketching selfies, The Byrds | 1 Comment

Drive by…

Posted on December 27, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Seventeen drivers sketched as we overtook them on the way down the M5 on Boxing Day, heading home after a family Christmas in the North. A few look exhausted, some are fairly relaxed, and a couple are even smiling. I’ve broken a couple … Continue reading →

Posted in cars, comparisons, faces, journeys, line drawing, people, travel, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Arcade Fire, drawings of face profiles, sketches of drivers, sketching faces in town, sketching from a car, urban sketching | Leave a comment

Going orange…

Posted on December 10, 2016 by Ed Mostly

There’s a likeness in there somewhere! Short winter days so less outdoor sketching. I keep the daily drawing habit going through late evening mirror selfies, all in bamboo dip-pen with De Atramentis ink.

Posted in bamboo dip pen, coloured ink, daily drawing, faces, line drawing, monochrome, self-portrait | Tagged bamboo dip pen, daily drawing, De Atramentis inks, Love, sketching selfies | 2 Comments

Sketchy selfies

Posted on October 8, 2016 by Ed Mostly

The latest crop of selfies, including some in coloured ink and bamboo dip pen, along with blind drawing mirror fun (that’s the fourth one!). There’s the usual range of self-portrait expressions from sullen to severe via surly, and a higher frequency … Continue reading →

Posted in bamboo dip pen, blind drawing, body, coloured ink, eye, faces, ink brush, line drawing, self-portrait | Tagged bamboo dip pen, De Atramentis inks, inktober, Primal Scream, self portraits in ink, sketches of eyes, sketching selfies | 2 Comments

Ship ahoy!

Posted on September 10, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Museum sketches from Stockholm. First some of the haunting facial reconstructions of bodies found in the C17th Vasa shipwreck (and the skulls they worked off) at the wonderful Vasa Museum. Then looking down from an upper viewing platform on galleries of visitors looking at the ship … Continue reading →

Posted in bamboo dip pen, boats, faces, figures, museum, nautical, Naval museum, people watching, skulls, Stockholm, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Maritime Museum, museum sketching, sketches of model ships, sketching faces, skull sketches, Stockholm museums, The Upsetters, urban sketching, Vasa Museum | Leave a comment

Apologies

Posted on June 3, 2016 by Ed Mostly

I blame Sherry, who suggested I try smiling in some of my selfies… All the usual materials (Inktense pencils or brush-pen), all fairly fast, all late at night, and all A5

Posted in brush pen, faces, ink brush, Inktense, self-portrait | Tagged brush pen portraits, Inktense pencil portraits, sketching selfies, sketching smiling selfies, Steve Harley | 6 Comments

Selfies, again

Posted on April 30, 2016 by Ed Mostly

The usual parade of glum and suspicious late night portraits… Sherry says the third one is how I’ll look when I’m seventy! In the second one my mouth is my third hand, holding the extra brush-pen I’m using. By the next one I’d … Continue reading →