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Drawing Together Episode 137: Man’s Profile
this episode is Part of the Drawing Together live video series – learn more here
Let’s draw a man’s profile in pen!! Follow along using this reference image: Image by Pexels from Pixabay.
I’m working with:
- Strathmore Grey Toned Paper
- Graphite Pencil
- Sepia and Black Derwent Line Maker Pens
- White Colored Pencil
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Loved the pen and ink, the white pencil pulled it together. Thank You.
Fantastic!
‘Blooming Marvellous’ experimenting with oils…
Try again
Nicely done!
I decided to try color pencils. Big challenge, but loved it! Any suggestions or comments always welcome.
Thanks, Scott and… please keep the drawing sessions going!
H9o Scott, I am not sure I posted the vases. Recently I am experiencing a lot of difficulties to post my work, after the site supposedly was improved.
Hi Scott, my men’s profile drawing,, which I could not download before. I hope I will be succesfull this time.
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My third approach to attach the pictures of men’s profile drawing. The size of the picture is 1.70 MB, so it should be fine. Urszula
It appears the picture of my drawing was not attached. I am trying again. Urszula
Hello Scott, I am a bit late to post my drawing of a man’s profile. But here it is, on the same paper you recommended , but using black Derwent’s microns, maker pens, because I did not have any in sepia, or gray, and white pastel pencil. I got exhausted drawing that profile. Most likely do to my ambition to draw more rather than less. Urszula
My fineliner pen wouldn’t go over the graphite. Used some brown and gray colored pencils. The ink was done with a dip pen. It went on ok over the graphite. Thanks for videos it’s good practice.
I decided to use coloured pencils for the entire drawing. Tried to follow the same techniques for the cross hatching but it may have gone a little haywire in some areas. A bit more patience on my part would have helped I’m sure lol. All in all a great experience as usual. Thanks Scott!
Hi Scott,
it is very delicate to work with pens. One line and everything is gone. Can you ever be satisfied with your sketch? Somehow there is still something to improve.
See you soon Pia
my comments uploaded, but my drawing didn’t. So I’ll try the drawing upload again.
Really enjoyed this session! This was my first time drawing portrait with pen, learnt a lot and definitely going to try again. Thank you!
I used just a .7 mm black Rollerball pen, which I think worked well with the subject matter’s weathered face. Dark graphite background was added to convey the chiaroscuro effect in the lighting of the reference photo.
Challenging in ink
This was an interesting experiment—never done pen before! I was really having challenges with tools. The pens I had didn’t like the paper surface nor would they make any marks over graphite. I ended up using a fine point sharpie. I didn’t quite get the spacing between the eyes correct. I had a tough time but I tried! ?
Graphite and white colored pencil on gray paper
I have not used any white pencil and my sketch is nothing like your beautiful delicate drawing. But it was fun to draw in pen – the feeling that every mark is there to stay gives the freedom to let go. My mistake in the background was that I used a pen which was too thick. I went over it with charcoal, but that does not selvage the mess 😀
We started with White paper and I continued with it for the drawing. I used a Zebra 0.5 Sarasa Clip Pen. I really enjoyed using the cross hatching.
I have a few spots I needed to plan a bit better before using the pen. But it was fun! Thanks Scott
This was hard. However, pen was a bit more forgiving than I thought it would be. I liked starting out with pencil. Thank you for including this ink drawing in your lessons.