Category: sketch
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It can be simple and loose, sketching
Yes, I’m that guy who likes to keep things simple. With respect for everyone’s way of experiencing art or letting their creativity take its course. I prefer to make loose sketches in a quick way, expressively, without thinking too much. I have to say that this relaxes me and gives…
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House with greenery
Yes, we are back with a watercolour sketch. A few weeks ago I spoiled myself by buying more professional watercolours. Why? It feels that these colours are more intense and more natural. Appearances can be deceiving, of course. But if you want to do a good job, you have to…
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Drawing challenge, current situation
It’s been almost a month since I posted an update of my drawing challenge. In the meantime, I have not been idle and have managed to follow my planned schedule, and I’m still going strong. At this moment I just finished drawing 227, almost a quarter of my goal :-)🏁…
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Man in the garden
Today I did again a new watercolour sketch project. The subject is ‘greenery’ in the broadest sense of the word. I learned to make the green tones by mixing blue and yellow. More blue for the shadow and more yellow for the light parts of the sketch. I saw this…
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Sketching – creating mood
Today I finally made some time to make a watercolour sketch. On Skillshare I followed another video by Toby Haseler. In short, he takes the basic steps to achieve a satisfactory result, resulting in achieving a certain mood in a sketch. The emphasis is on simplicity and on working layer…
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Drawing challenge, where am I?
My drawing challenge of drawing 1000 faces or portraits is still going on, so it’s about time to give you an update. I’m not doing this challenge just to reach my goal of 1000 drawings, but it’s an incentive to encourage me to draw on a daily basis. It is…
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Clowns and skulls, yep
I promised to do an update every now and then on my drawing challenge, namely drawing 1000 faces or portraits in 2024. Actually, it’s not really about the challenge, but rather the search for a motive, a push in the back to keep practicing, to discover things and learn from…
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1000 portrait challenge
Yes I know, the watercolour sketching is a bit behind what I initially had in mind, but don’t worry, I am working on this a lot. The reason is that I’m currently having so much fun sketching portraits with a fountain pen. This is the way for me to keep…
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Here we go
Now that the typical New Year’s rush is over, the best wishes have been sent and the family visits have brought back nice memories, time to go back to work. Right, I was sketching portraits to let the hands, fingers and eyes communicate with each other again. Often it is…
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