Watercolor Pencil at Figure Drawing
Last night was my first session at Society of Illustrators for 2011 and one of my art goals for this year is to move toward use of watercolor while drawing figures. I decided that a good place to start is the 20 minute poses - and to use a watercolor pencil and then brush in the watercolor pigment with water. My paper buckled when I added water, but I cleaned up the scan buckling lines a little with Photoshop before posting these. Next time I will take watercolor paper for these experiments. Stay tuned to see how long it takes me to move to watercolor and paintbrush - I move slowly....
I still did my first 20 minute pose in 9B graphite. The contrast was increased a little for posting.
These are the other two drawings - drawn with a Caran D'Ache mahogany watercolor pencil and then painted with water:
Open this link, if you also clicked on the Society of Illustors link for Sketch Night in the first sentence:
http://www.paperandthreads.com/2010/11/figure_drawing_and_illustrator.php
Joan was sitting right next to me!
Comments
These are wonderful.
Posted by: donna noble | January 12, 2011 2:34 PM
These are looking good, is it slower working with the wc pencils?
Posted by: Cathy | January 12, 2011 3:50 PM
Great work! I especially like the watercolor pencils ones!
Posted by: raena | January 12, 2011 11:36 PM
I like the ones done with water color pencil, very nice!
Posted by: Sasa | January 13, 2011 12:02 AM
Very, very, nice! I love your work. nancy
Posted by: nancy t | January 13, 2011 7:34 AM
Nice work shirley!! I love your mahogany coloured ones with their nice value changes. It seems you enjoy these sessions...that's great!!
Ronell
Posted by: Africantapestry | January 13, 2011 1:33 PM
Once again just wonderful sketches! Thank you so much for sharing this tip...The contrast was increased a little for posting. I continually forget to do this and end up unhappy with the scans I do. Hopefully this will change that. So enjoy seeing your work!
Posted by: trish | January 14, 2011 3:34 PM
Hi Shirley, Great drawings! I think you have developed a good plan for experimenting with watercolor and drawing. So fun to see the results!
Posted by: Margaret (Peggy) Stermer-Cox | January 15, 2011 9:56 AM