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One from yesterday's Artmakessenselife life drawin

One from yesterday's Artmakessenselife life drawing session with the fabulous Adrian. I'm posting 2 of the same as the sun was giving such a nice spotlight when I was taking pics, let's the colors in the highlighted area look more like it really looks on my painting. The other one is evenly lit, but the camera added a tad to much contrast for my taste. Anyways, the motto of the session was "Who's afraid of the male model?" as it seems many artists prefer female models out of various reasons. Me, I certainly like to draw both, especially when the male model is Adrian. 😊😉 So, yeah to Adrian, who is always a fab source of inspiration! Thanks a bunch, Adrian and Michel for the great session yesterday. 😘❤️

I'm a huge fan of Japanese watercolors at the moment, so of course I used them for this one as well, together with my ArtGraf watersoluble pencil. And a little bit of the ArtGraf soft carbon pencil, also watersoluble.

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One from last week's life drawing session with Lil

One from last week's life drawing session with Lilith @lilith_newson hosted by @helenroetenlifedrawing. Loved the poses, Lilith is a beautiful model - and her eyeshadow that day! Stunning 😉 Thanks for the lovely evening, Lilith and Helen! 😘

This one was done with an ArtGraph watersoluble pencil and Japanese watercolors.

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Joined a fun lifedrawing session organised by @bri

Joined a fun lifedrawing session organised by @brixtonlifedrawing on Monday night. Adrian @modbodadrian as naughty Elfie. 😱😉🎅🧝‍♀️ Great session! 😊

What I was using that evening were my ArtGraf watersoluble pencil and charcoal pencil, the white ArtGraf chalk block stipped in water for outlining on the brown craft paper, and Japanese watercolors.

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I had ordered some Copic Multiliners which arrived

I had ordered some Copic Multiliners which arrived yesterday. I thought I might try the light grey ones in combination with some shading with the ArtGraf watercolour graphite I recently bought. What to sketch? I was just watching a video with some updates on Covid by Dr. John Campbell, so I thought I might sketch along while listening. 😉 Not too shabby as he was moving of course and I didn't stop the video or take a screenshot. 😉

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Two of the 5 minute warm-up poses of Wednesday's l

Two of the 5 minute warm-up poses of Wednesday's life drawing session organized by @helenroetenlifedrawing and inspired by the drawings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Our Models were Maud (@maudarte @maudeloviva) and Noa (@noathemodel). For those quick sketches I prefer to use one of my Pilot Parallel pens, the 6mm one in that case. I just love the variety in lines I can achieve in such a short time with this pen. I did add a few details after the 5 minutes were over, like more hair, the black in the clothes, and the shading. Two models in 5 minutes is really tough. 😉🙂

Thanks for the lovely evening, Helen, Maud, and Noa! 🙂😘😘😘

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One more from yesterdays great life drawing sessio

One more from yesterdays great life drawing session organized by @helenroetenlifedrawing and inspired by the drawings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Our Models were Maud (@maudarte @maudeloviva) and Noa (@noathemodel). Also done with my Artgraf 6B water-soluble pencil and my Japanese LUMI accent colors on Canson Montval watercolor paper.

Thanks for the lovely evening, Helen, Maud, and Noa! 🙂😘😘😘

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Another one from yesterdays great life drawing ses

Another one from yesterdays great life drawing session organized by @helenroetenlifedrawing and inspired by the drawings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Our Models were Maud (@maudarte @maudeloviva) and Noa (@noathemodel). Again done with my Artgraf 6B water-soluble pencil and my Japanese LUMI accent colors on Canson Montval watercolor paper.

Thanks for the lovely evening, Helen, Maud, and Noa! 🙂😘😘😘

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One from yesterdays great life drawing session org

One from yesterdays great life drawing session organized by @helenroetenlifedrawing and inspired by the drawings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Our Models were Maud (@maudarte @maudeloviva) and Noa (@noathemodel). Used my Artgraf 6B water-soluble pencil and my Japanese LUMI accent colors on Canson Montval watercolor paper.

Thanks for the lovely evening, Helen, Maud, and Noa! 🙂😘😘😘

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Just trying out some new art materials I might use

Just trying out some new art materials I might use in tonight's life drawing session organized by @helenroetenlifedrawing. The models will be Maud and Noa, the inspiration for the session is going to be the drawings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. I sketched this quickly after a pic of Maud @maudarte taken by @blasphotographerparis.

Used a pink Copic fineliner, Japanese LUMI accent colors (totally in love with these ❤️, they just came the other day), and and Artgraf 6B water-soluble pencil I picked up at the art store before lockdown came upon us again. The pencil was the last thing I added, I started out with a sketch with the Copic fineliners. 😉

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And another one from this week's life drawing ses

And another one from this week's life drawing session with Byuka and Lucia aka as @a.werewolf.muse and @lucia_lifemodel hosted by @helenroetenlifedrawing. The inspiration for the poses came from photographer and painter #jansaudek. Thanks again for the fun and inspiration to Helen, Byuka, and Lucia! 😘😘😘

This one was also done with my 6 mm Pilot Parallel Pen filled with Platinum Black Carbon ink and my Neocolor II crayons from Caran d'Ache. Painted on A4 300g Montval watercolor paper from Canson.

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Told you that in those past weeks I started rewatc

Told you that in those past weeks I started rewatching #LOST - one of my fav tv-series ever. 🙂 Currently in season 6, the end is near. This time I did a little sketch of Benjamin Linus, Michael Emerson in real life.

Outlined with a Tombow PlaycolorK marker - the only one I found so far that really resists smudging by alconhol markers - and colored with my markers. I used my old A6 photo printing paper, it's got a nice gloss and I wouldn't really know what else to use this paper for. 😂

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Another one from yesterday's life drawing session

Another one from yesterday's life drawing session with Byuka and Lucia aka as @a.werewolf.muse and @lucia_lifemodel hosted by @helenroetenlifedrawing. The inspiration for the poses came from photographer and painter #jansaudek. Thanks for the fun and inspiration to Helen, Byuka, and Lucia! 😘😘😘

Did this one with my 6 mm Pilot Parallel Pen filled with Platinum Black Carbon ink and my Neocolor II crayons from Caran d'Ache. Painted on A4 300g Montval watercolor paper from Canson.

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Wonderfully decadent queer life drawing session wi

Wonderfully decadent queer life drawing session with the fabulous duo #byuka&lucia aka as @a.werewolf.muse and @lucia_lifemodel. The session was hosted by @helenroetenlifedrawing, the inspiration for the poses came from photographer and painter #jansaudek. Thanks for the fun and inspiration to Helen, Byuka, and Lucia! 😘😘😘

Did this one with my 6 mm Pilot Parallel Pen filled with Platinum Black Carbon ink. The background red is quinacridone coral from #DanielSmith, the color highlights on the models were done with Neocolor II crayons from Caran d'Ache and a tad of watercolor graphite from ArtGraf. Painted on A4 300g Montval watercolor paper from Canson.

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In those past weeks I started rewatching #LOST - o

In those past weeks I started rewatching #LOST - one of my fav tv-series ever. 🙂 I kind of lived in this series for a little while. 😉 In my mind only of course. Can't believe how long it's been since it first aired! 😱 Started doing little portraits in my tiny sketchbook using my 2,4mm Pilot Parallel Pen with the original ink. This one is of Hurley aka Hugo Reyes, Jorge Garcia in real life.

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Another one from the two life drawing sessions ins

Another one from the two life drawing sessions inspired by the works of George Grosz with the amazing Emily Metalskin.

This one was done with my 6mm Pilot Parallel Pen and watercolors.

Thanks for being such a great muse, Emily, and thanks for organizing those awesome sessions, Judith! 🙂😘😘😘

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Two from another Zoom life drawing session last we

Two from another Zoom life drawing session last week, this time with Angelica, @angel_the_dandelion in a session hosted by @helenroetenlifedrawing. Our artist of inspiration was Marlene Dumas. Thanks so much for the very inspirational and enjoyable evening, Helen and Angelica! 😊😘😘😘

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I'm just so lazy with posting, well, more like wit

I'm just so lazy with posting, well, more like with taking pics of my paintings first. 😉 So, here's one from a life drawing session with Margo @bodytoshine who was our fabulous model in a Maria Lassnig inspired session with @artmakessenselife. It was a great session, lots of fun. 🙂 Thanks again, Helen, Margo, and Michel for that inspiring evening! 😘😘😘

Had to think what I used for this one. 😁 It was Neocolor II crayons, my Pilot Parallel pen with grey sketch ink Thea, liquid charcoal and watercolor for the background.

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Last week I also joined a life drawing session wit

Last week I also joined a life drawing session with London Drawing. The wonderful Daryl Hembrough was our modle. I'll also post more from this session in the next days. For the moment I'll give this last pose. The tattoo on his arm is a portrait of his grandparents. Loved this pose. Heck, loved the whole session! 🙂

I used my 6mm Pilot Parallel pen filled with Platinum black carbon ink and some Neocolor II crayons from Caran D'Ache for this painting.

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This weekend I joined two life drawing sessions in

This weekend I joined two life drawing sessions inspired by the works of George Grosz with the amazing Emily Metalskin. Thanks for being such a great muse, Emily, and thanks for organizing those awesome sessions, Judith! 🙂😘😘😘

I'll post more from these sessions. This one was done with laying down the watercolors first and then adding some contours with my Platinum Preppy fountainpen, filled with Platinum black carbon ink.

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Another one from the life drawing session with @he

Another one from the life drawing session with @helenroetenlifedrawing hosting Nasim last Wednesday. I didn't get to finish that one during the session, so I did on the weekend. Pentel and Kuretake Brushpens, Neocolor II watersoluble oil pastels, Daniel Smith watercolor sticks, watercolors, and color pencils on an A3 180g sketch pad - which is not actually meant for watercolor. But it holds out fine. Oh and some white Edding paintmarker, for the highlights.

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