Tag Archives: sketching selfies

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

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

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 #3

Posted on January 6, 2016 by Ed Mostly

More brown ink brush-pen selfies. My face has gone through a catastrophic Christmas slump by the last sketch! Kuretake #8 and #40 filled with the usual 3 inks, Lexington grey water-brush, watercolour, A5 – 20/30 mins each

Posted in brush pen, coloured paper, comparisons, faces, ink brush, self-portrait | Tagged brush-pen sketching, ink brush sketches, Kuretake #40, Kuretake #8, noodlers inks, sketching self-portraits, sketching selfies, The War on Drugs | 11 Comments

More selfies

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Another batch of late night selfies, including some deliberate attempts to avoid the usual self-portrait surly stare; I’m not sure that they’re any less alarming! All but one were done with my new favourite sketching tool, Kuretake brush-pens, either number 8 (plastic … Continue reading →

Posted in brush pen, collections, faces, Lexington grey, monochrome, self-portrait | Tagged David Bowie, drawing self-portraits, ink-brush self-portraits, Kuretake #40 #8, Kuretake brush-pens, sketching selfies | 4 Comments

Marker pen sketches

Posted on July 5, 2015 by Ed Mostly

A couple of late night selfies (smile!), washing up on the drying rack, sketches from a walk in the Mendips, and hands. All using my new favourite marker pen; it’s very different from using the 6B pencil, you can get some line variation in … Continue reading →