Relentless Robin

Fast Slow Self-portraits

My Fasts were done in about a minute with turquoise Blicks liquid watercolor. My slows were about 15 minutes with a black paper mate flair pen.

Brush Pen Practice

I have worn out the tip of my brush-pen with too much practice. It is still full of ink.

LePen Technical Drawing Pen Brush.

Color Self-portrait

Prismacolor Art Stix woodless colored pencils in a 9 by 12 400 Series Strathmore premium recycled sketchbook

The light blue on the shirt is Prismacolor Nupastel. The rest is Prismacolor Art Stix.

Fast Slow Self-Portraits

The fast / slow progress is two drawings done one on top of the other. The first is done quickly in color with large strokes. The second is done in ink for an hour with lots of details.

My Fasts were done in about a minute with yellow liquid watercolor. My slows were about 10 minutes with a black paper mate flair pen.

Why Self-portraits?

I am always available and free to model.

I can not complain about the results or the process.

I can chart my progress over time. Maybe one day one drawing will look like me.

I can experiment with different techniques and mediums.

There is a theory that I will get much better at other people’s portraits after doing hundreds of myself.

Before last week I rarely looked at myself in the mirror. Koosje Korne, a teacher online art class called “Seeing” that I am taking at the sketchbookskool.com assigned a selfie a day for a week to be done in five different styles:

• selfies from a photo showing foreshortening

• mirror selfies with harsh lighting and heavy shadows

• contour continuous line ‘quickies’

• from memory/imagination

• fast slow selfie (The fast / slow progress is two drawings done one on top of the other. The first is done quickly in color with large strokes. The second is done in ink for an hour with lots of details.)

So far I have done a day quickies with a fine pen ( https://robintinaysallie.wordpress.com/2019/12/02/self-portraits/ ) and a day of quickies with a brush pen shown below: