Drawing from Reference

We were asked this week to bring in 4 images, one of a man made item, one of a natural thing, another of a facial portrait and finally one of a full figure image of someone doing something. I chose a photo I took of the York City wall, a snail I found crawling across my bedroom window, Kevin Spacey from the film 'The Life of David Gale' and a man from Stylist magazine looking... stylish.

Earlier in the day I had used a brush pen for the first time at the suggestion of Hollie. It felt good to draw with and yielded interesting results. Using a brush pen appears to add weight and more energy to my line work than a fine liner (which I currently use). You have to work to create softer lines.

I began by drawing the man from Stylist Magazine, firstly just an outline missing most detail as I wanted to get an idea of his shape.

After this I drew a second version adding detail to his patterned trousers using fine liner and diluted Indian Ink.