Friday, December 27, 2013

Portrait of Bruno J.

Cotman watercolors on Stillman and Birn sketchbook
portraits have always been my favorite, I became an urban sketcher after doing portraits for many years..

Portraits in ink

This portraits were made using a Safari  Lamy pen SF with noodler's ink on a 6x8 wirebound Beta Series Stillman and Birn sketchbook (Except for Opie's portrait which is a bigger size 9x12 wirebound as well)
Some drawings are better left in black and white, can't explain exactly why, there's a certain elegance to it.
The last is a portrait of Bernard V.
The first portrait of Jorge R. took me to do an extra preliminary sketch since I found a bit complicated to make out the detail of the beard and mustache
The second portrait of Opie (Sons of Anarchy) I did a preliminary in pencil and I inked it