Head Casts Sketches from the National Portrait Gallery (^_~)

Hello Everyone, I hope you are all having a great week so far. Today I thought I'd show you some Human Head Cast sketches that I drew at the National Portrait Gallery two Sundays ago. I've made it a habit of mine that every time whenever I finish church, I would visit this gallery to do sketches of some of the portraits, that I find quite appealing. Also whenever I sketch, I listen to Classic FM. I was inspired to draw head casts because while I was drawing portraits I noticed an art student who was drawing casts. I thought I'll give it a go as it has been a while since I have drawn casts.

I yearned to make a post of these casts as I didn't want to add it to the usual Daily Sketches that I do each month.

What you will see here are about thirteen sketches of human head casts, four of them are in blue ink and the rest of them are in blue. By the way these sketches are of people who are from the Stuarts, Georgian, Regency and Victorian periods. I decided to start with Queen Victoria at the beginning, because it was the first cast that I drew and it turn out to look really good. Also she is featured at the end:

This sketch here will be used for a future project that I'll be starting very soon. I love the look of this head cast a lot so I decided that I would take my time in drawing it. This one was successful out of all the sketches that I done. I will also try and draw this head cast again, in full view because it wasn't just the features that seemed to create a spark, but it was also the bottom part of the cast which made me decide to use  it for future projects.

There will be some more head casts that I be sketching from this gallery. You'll get to see them hopefully during the month of September.

(^o^)14th Day Christmas Pictures!(^_^)

As a lead-up to my 25th birthday, I decided that every month on the 14th, I will create and post an image on my blog, this will be based on what comes to mind, what I have seen from the first week, on TV, DVD's or places that I have been around London. This month I have chosen to create a Christmas drawing since it will be next week where Christmas will finally arrive. It's of a drawing of an angel that lives on top of the tree and meets another ornament which has floated around the house. (You'll probably realise this already or not but the ornament or the right reminds me of Steve Jobs in his younger days.... He didn't really come to mind while I was drawing this picture but as I coloured the image, I saw a bit of a resemblance.) This image is in water-colour paints and inked in black ink:

The next drawing is a Secret Santa for a particular forum member on a website called Sweatdrop. This forum member has a web comic called FanDanGo that begun in 2009 and is still going today. She is part of a group called Indie Manga and has created some great comics so far. Since she is a fan of Tsubasa Resevoir Chronicle, I decided to do a fan art of this series. It's written by a five female manga artists called CLAMP, where each of them create various fragments for one series. They are also the artist who create one of my favourite manga, called xxxholic. It's a different story however it's a cross-over of Tsubasa and the same scenes in Tsubasa are portrayed quite differently in this comic. The main characters are drawn in Christmas clothes:

The final drawing, is a another fan-art for Deb Marlowe. This is another retrospective picture of two brothers (Charles and Jack) who have found their love (Sophie and Lily) in two of the authour's books. (Scandelous Lord, Rebellious Miss and Her Cinderella Season) It's has a Christmas theme and I was inspired by visiting The Museum of London. As usual I visited the Pleasure Garden's section of the Museum and sketched the clothes with an orange coloured pencil. When I got home I inked and used water colour paints the drawing. Towards the end of this week, the image will be sent to Deb:

On a side note, I created this impressionist drawing of myself to celebrate my 24th birthday last month, I've abandoned black in this drawing and used blue. Also I portrayed myself wearing my Front of House uniform that I wear at work:

More Sketches (part 3)!

Once again but this time it was today, I visited the National Portrait Gallery, to create some more sketches:

Commencing from Charlotte Sophia: (1744 - 1815)

John Burgore: (1722-92)

Catherine Parr : (1512 - 48)

Catherine Stephens: Countess of Essex (1794 - 1882)

I was marvelled of how she was depicted on the painting, so I decided to do some more research on this person. From what I gathered, she was a soprano vocalist and an actress and quite known within the life that she lived.

Robert Burns (1759 - 96)

This final image is half completed however, I was amazed of how the sketch became almost accurate. This drawing will be shown again but completed the next time I return to the gallery to create more portraits.