A few random sketches from past Dr Sketchys!
Hurry you still have time to go. At Chat Noir downtown. 8th and Ellis. 7-10 pm
Cu there.
Costumes required Mermaid nite
Fawns
Double mermaids
She sells sea shells
FOzzie Bear
Tired Santa
Mobster and his moll
All sketches ink and tombow markers and a few with watercolor
Hurry you still have time to go. At Chat Noir downtown. 8th and Ellis. 7-10 pm. Cu there.
Tired Santa – Ink glitter pens and Watercolor in superbee tablet. 20 Minute sketch. My favorite of the ones I kept.
Was great fun last nite.
All the sketches are 10×14 watercolor and ink with wink of Stella glitter pens. I started with my Winsor Newton wc markers but found it easier to use my two small travel palettes I took to France- a whiskey painters palette and a cotman palette reloaded with artist grade watercolor. The skin tone is quinacridone sienna. Paintbrushes are the waterbrushes.
What every girl wants for Christmas – 20 minute sketch
Ink glitter pens and Watercolor in superbee tablet.
Princess Augusta got a little wild and XXX rated with her poses. I have this one to the guys because they stood for twenty minutes with their hands in the air and they were so embarrassed over the pose. Think cheeks were bright red.
Naught and Nice -15 min sketch
Ink glitter pens and Watercolor in superbee tablet.
WIP – Santa’s Ugly Christmas sweater. Ten minute sketch. Ink glitter pens and Watercolor in superbee tablet
First we did a fast sketch of the model and were suppose to just do the head. I forgot and started drawing his body and his tank top. After we drew him we had to make up an ugly Christmas sweater. The face could use more work.
I won two tickets to the Chat Noir New Years party with this sketch. Hurrah.
I also won a free drink with another sketch but I forgot to take a picture of it. Oops!!!
It was models choice.
Best prize we all received tickets for the current Chat Noir show. Thanks Chris and Princess Augusta.
There are a few more but they really require more work.
Thanks for reading.
Margaret xxx
WIP??? Mermaid Lorelei and Mermaid McKenzie 11×14 super Aquabee tablet
Not sure these are done but at least they have some color now. Getting into travel mode so I used my travel Palette with Winsor Newton colors and my cotman palette with quinacridones.
The background in this painting is cerulean and yellow ochre. I may darken with ultramarine or inathradone to make the mermaids pop.
Remember this is what it looked like?
WIP – Mistress Princess Augusta – 11×14 drawn when I was done with one of the long mermaid poses. Her right arm still has problems. She was not posed so she was moving a lot and I drew her right arm too long. I shortened it with negative painting but now I think it is a smidge too narrow.
TIP: Really love her skirt. Both of these paintings were done wet on wet after watching a how to impressionistic watercolor video on Marcon Chews website http://www.marvinchew.com/ (You will have to scroll down for the video. Could not copy the exact irk for u! 😐) about wet on wet painting.The skirt turned out especially well I think. Done with ultramarine and burnt umber added to a wash of water that I painted on the skirt first. The background was done the same way.
I added the bowler hat to the original sketch.
Thanks for reading.
Margaret xxx
Happy Halloween!!
The first three are all drawn with my Noodler Konrad and Lexinton Grey ink. The colors are all Winsor Newton watercolor markers a few tombows and Wink of Stella Glitter pens.
Mermaid Lorelei and Mermaid McKenzie. What librarians do when they are not working!! Wear mermaid costumes and makeup like a character from Avatar.
My two favorite mermaid sketches. Thier costumes were awesome which is why I saved them for Halloween. This was a twenty minute pose that had ten minutes added to it.
I was done in twenty minutes so i started sketching Princess Augusta our hostess.
Mermaid Lorelei and Mermaid McKenzie
Twenty minute sketch. If I ever sit down to watercolor these this one will be great. I barely had time to start painting.
This was a ten minute sketch. I spent most of the time on the tail. Much more fun coloring than the human part. I really like the tail part but the human part not so much.
Mermaid Lorelei
Looking at that part of would be an easy fix. Shave a tad off the right side of her face and draw in her right upper arm. Oops the things u miss when unate drawing fast. The last one with the Kuretake brush pen. Sometimes I just draw better with one than the other. I changed to my Noodler Konrad.
The faun 14x 11″ 20 min Kuretake brush pen, platinum carbon black ink, Winsor Newton watercolor markers, wink of Stella metallic pens.
5 minute sketch her feet were like hoofs!!
Was great last nite. Lots of fun. Great costumes!! Contests, a drink or two and wild music to suit the fast sketching.
After ten 11×14 watercolor sketches I was totally exhausted when I got home last nite. 😳
WIP – Let’s play a game! Trivia anyone?! Noodler Konrad, Lexington grey ink. Winsor newton red watercolor Marker.
Even our hostess Princess Augusta was dressed up. I drew her when I finished some of the other sketches but she’s not done.
Her stockings get black stripes. And her clothes are black.
A teaser. There’s more to this mermaid!! Noodler Konrad, Lexington grey ink. Winsor newton watercolor Markers, wink of Stella glitter pens.
Stay tuned for more faun and the piece de resistance the MERMAIDS!!!
Thanks for reading!!
Margaret xxx
This is the one I won the Chat Noir t shirt for – the models favorite sketch. Though you can’t see it the cape is colored with a wink of Stella red glitter pen. Those wink of Stellas are always winners.
The next two are the same twenty minute pose. I got done early and started a second. I have NO idea why he is wearing that “hat”!! Background was done with two red tombow pens that I wet down and let run.
See above for this one. Actually drawn during the first part of the twenty minute pose but was annoyed because I didn’t have room for his foot so I started over.
Another stance with the same strange costume. Had fun journaling on this page. Princess Augusta thinks he looks like Fozzy Bear thus the name. The tattoo is my favorite part of this one. I stole Ruth’s inktense to draw it with. I always like drawing on wet paper with inktense for fun off beat effects.
A reclining pose. And that’s it for now. Tomorrow life modeling. Hope it goes better than last week.
Two More pages!! 
A little urban sketching I started this morning at breakfast.
Thanks for reading.
Margaret ️xxx
Five minute sketch
Always a fun time at Dr Sketchys anti art school. You draw like mad and Laff for three hours. The model quickly strikes many funny poses since the models are not your average college art class model but performers of various kinds.
Fozzy Bear Five minute sketch
Anything from burlesque to circus performers may turn up on stage. Sometimes clothed sometimes not. Always in a costume.
Draw the model doing something funny contest. Five minute sketch
Sometimes because you are drawing so fast you just mess up. These were all done with brush pens and Tombow markers in a SuperBee tablet.
Dr Sketchys is a worldwide movement. Poses are 1-20 minutes. Check the Internet for a branch near you!! Then GOOOO!!
One of my sketches was the models favorite so I won a free tshirt. Thanks Princess Augusta!! Chat Noir on Eighth Street is where Dr Sketchys is held once a month. Stay tuned tomorrow to see what his favorite sketch looks like.
A couple more pages of how to draw people. Still a lot left!
Thanks for looking!!
Margaret ️xxx
Always a fun time at Dr Sketchys anti art school. You draw like mad and Laff for three hours. The model quickly strikes many funny poses since the models are not your average college art class model but performers of various kinds.
Fozzy Bear
Anything from burlesque to circus performers may turn up on stage. Sometimes clothed sometimes not. Always in a costume.
Draw the model doing something funny contest. Sometimes because you are drawing so fast you just mess up. These were all done with brush pens and Tombow markers in a SuperBee tablet.
Dr Sketchys is a worldwide movement. Poses are 1-20 minutes. Check the Internet for a branch near you!! Then GOOOO!!
One of my sketches was the models favorite so I won a free tshirt. Thanks Princess Augusta!! Chat Noir on Eighth Street is where Dr Sketchys is held once a month. Stay tuned tomorrow to see what his favorite sketch looks like.
A couple more pages of how to draw people. Still a lot left!
Thanks for looking!!
Margaret ️xxx
Ten minute pose. This one is going to be used on social media to advertise the Sweeney Todd show at Chat Noir this weekend. Wish I could be there to see it but in Atlanta dogsitting. The red is a wink of Stella brush pen. All red glitter. Makes him look even more gruesome.
The sketching went much better but I do wish I had used my Noodler Creaper Ahab for some of these. Instead I used the Pentel Brush Pen, Tombow Markers, Pentel color brush pens, and Wink of Stella brush pens for some glittery sparkle. both the Tombows and the Colorbrush pens are water soluble and fun to use with a water brush.
This was a ten minute pose. We were supposed to make a poster of him so I turned him into a pirate because I messed up his left eye. Perfect place for a patch. Problem solved. Most of the coloring was done with the Tombows. There was a prize of two free tickets to Sweeney Todd but since I wasn’t going to be there I didn’t enter.
Mickeys a great singer so we drew him as he played the guitar and sang. Tombows and Pentel color brush. 10 minute pose. The challenge of this was drawing his moving arm as he played.
15 minute pose. His leg is too short. Oopsey. It was hard to see in the dark theater. And as I was sitting in front of him I had to peek over the sketch book to see his lower half. Or at least that’s what I am blaming this on. Lol. Couldn’t be me!!
Not quite a disaster but almost. Had her body too long and her legs too short.
Then I shut the book before the black wink of Stella I did the lettering with was dry and it glued the pages together. Poop!
The grey on her legs is where I shortened her body. I used gouache to try to straighten up the stray pen marks and the grey on her legs. For some
Reason my flesh Tombow kept lifting the Pentel brush pen. I don’t remember it doing that before.
At any rate I added the gouache and the black Tombow this morning.
Sometimes a good crop can improve the look of a sketch. Lol.
Thanks for looking.
Margaret xxx
Great nite! Mickey Lay was a great model! Always our favorite sketching activity. It’s worldwide so see if there’s one near you.
2 Minute pose Head is a little small Done w brush pen in a strathmore mixed media sketchbook. I have one just for Dr Sketchys. Thank goodness the drawing went better than the ones I did at Good Books. Perhaps those earlier drawings loosened me up?!
We started with several two minutes poses.
The poses were very interesting. He did a lot of muscle poses. Seemed to have trouble getting the whole body on the paper.
Another two minute muscle pose
The first five minute pose. Hard to hold the spear up in the air for 5 minutes but Mickey did well. Hard pose to hold.
Two five minute costume poses. Finally managed to get his legs on the page. Hallelujah. These were embellished with Pentel brush markers and Tombow markers. The Tombows cover a lot of area quickly and are fun to wet down with a water brush giving a watercolor effect.
Thanks for reading. More dr Sketchys tomorrow!!
Margaret xxx
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