On this evening I opened my pencil case thinking “what shall I draw?” and saw my #Derwent watercolour pencils and thought “that will do”.
Sun-12-Oct-2025
109-3254 – What’s in my pencil case?
Derwent
108-3246 – Dentist visit
Quick sketch in the dentists lobby while I waited for my wife to get her teeth cleaned and a check up. I started this with a #Derwent watercolour pencil and then added some lines with a uniball micro pen.
Tue-30-Sep-2025
101-3061 – Greens
The other day I drew all the fruit that was yellow – this time we seemed to have bought a lot of green fruit (bananas, avocado and mangos – none of them ripe yet), so I thought I’d have a go at sketching them all. For this I used just my #Derwent #WatercolourPencils. One of my favourite sketchers (@art_allajordan) uses a lot of watercolour pencils (prismacolor and polychromos – so different to mine), but that inspired me to try this.
Wed-2-Apr-2025
100-3031-7 – PensNBrushes life drawing
After what feels like a long gap, I joined #PensNBrushes for a life drawing class on 15 March (the last session I joined was in June 2024 (see post No.89-2742-43). Here are the sketches I did of the first (male) model – I can’t say I was really satisfied with any of these. I started with a #Derwent water soluble graphite pencil (which promptly broke when I was doing my first sketch), then switched to using #WatercolourPencils and some ink. I’ve noted on each drawing how much time we had – but we started with 2 minute poses and worked our way up to 20 minutes for the last one.
Sat-15-Mar-2025
100-3013-7 – Life drawing session
Here are the sketches I did with the #SilawArtistCollective at the end of February. This session was in memory of Arnel Borja (a fellow artist), who sadly passed away in January. The models name was Milen Garcia and the event took place at Kapitolyo Art Space in Pasig. Each pose was about 20 minutes with some time added – though for the third pose I managed two sketches from different angles and then later added some doodles of the artists at work.
I used #Derwent watercolour pencils to start off, then added ink and watercolour. I think I was happiest with the last one, though as usual I struggled to draw her hand!
Fri-28-Feb-2025
83-2598 – Mug
I was doing a bit of tidying up last Saturday, I fished out a bunch of forgotten art supplies, and decided to make more use of them. In this sketch I used Derwent Watercolour pencils and a Derwent water soluble graphite pencil. So, no ink!
Sat-17-Feb-2024
82-2568 – Salt pig and ramekin dishes
Here is another sketch of a Christmas present I was given – this was from my sister. For a change I started this sketch with Derwent Watercolour Pencils and added ink lines and shading afterwards. This is also my first sketch in a newly made sketchbook – which I partly made as a sample for the sketchbook binding workshop I did last December. It’s made with super-cheap Corona 250gsm watercolour paper which absorbs the ink rather too quickly (like blotting paper) and will only take a few washes of watercolour before it starts to pill.
Mon-15-Jan-2024