This is the 3rd time I drew my White mom Carol but on phone. It still took some struggle just like when it's on the paper and many days sleeping on it.
And one day I opened up the drawing app and saw the pencil outline with fresh eyes, I easily spotted what needed to be fixed, and it was one of her eyes.
And like I said before, when the eyes are done right, the rest will follow. So quickly I tweaked that one eye and the next thing is I finished the drawing. In the car. And in the dark. :)
Drawing my own dad was so difficult that I just couldn't believe it. I still can't believe it. I literally non-stop drew and erased for hours on my phone and it took a few days to finally got it.
I thought my dad's iconic triangle eye shape would be so easy to capture the essence but it was the opposite.
I was exhausted afterwards and I just decided to leave it like a pencil drawing. Sent it to my dad and he thought he looked handsome, so mission accomplished.
Drawing grandma on phone using Autodesk Sketchbook app as well, and this time I used pen as if it's real pen on real paper, so no erase/undo.
Therefore, all lines from the process shown, and I kinda like the style, I guess because it reminds me of the old days of sketching on sketchbook with a cheap ballpoint pen.
Wanna give grandma a softer feel, so added second layer for watercolor. Based on her floral blouse's pastel colors.
As a sloth, I slowly move to digital era. Still not really used to it, but I started sketching on mobile device, this is done on Samsung Note10+.
Using Autodesk Sketchbook app, and with HB and 6B pencils. Drawing one of my cousins.
Yesterday it was my first time sketching faces with my Apple pencil. I felt like a little cheating because it was too easy to hit that "undo" arrow, and it expedited the whole process. It was a little unreal for me.
Whereas drawing on paper, it's a lot serious, almost like a ritual, I have to have the feeling for drawing for hours, and then clear my table and take out all drawing tools and drawing board, then I have to plan how and what carefully so that there's no sorry when inking.
OMG, it's so hard to draw Ross. I tried it last year before drawing Jeff Gould in October (the previous post), and I just couldn't nail it, so I gave up and went to draw Jeff first.
And these two days I felt like trying it again with a different picture of him, and it still wouldn't give. Luckily I felt like sitting there yesterday all day (raining hard outside), and finally I got to where I'm pleased, where I felt it conveyed my impression of him.
And this time I also tried something I've never done before, I used the water brush pen filled with ink to outline the drawing. I filled one brush with black ink and one blue. Just felt like playing with the ink, but I had too much fun playing with the ink and didn't stop when I should, so I over-inked it and made a boo-boo dark shadow on his neck. And you can't erase ink, so I had to lighten it by white charcoal pencil. Not a lovable mistake because it didn't change for a better result.
I combined his hand holding his Heller Awards from another picture of him into this picture of him just chilled wearing a t-shirt like he usually does.
