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InkTober 2020—Setting Up a Plan and Enjoying What Comes of It
Note: Enjoy this long post and the attached gallery. Family and business obligations will keep me away from this blog for most of November. I may pop in with a quick post or two, but the first two weeks of November are particularly tight. I wanted to give you something to look at in […]
Suggesting Hair Mass with Line
You don’t always have to use ink or paint wash to show volume in hair. I love working in the Hahnemühle Travel Journal. (See also the Hahnemühle Travel Book category.) It contains paper suitable for drawing and for pen and ink. I’ve used it for that in this sketch. Sometimes I also do washes on […]
Monochromatic Exaggeration (Only a Little)
Another great hairdo. Did I exaggerate it? Maybe just a little. If you would like to see me create this pen and watercolor sketch on illustration board please subscribe to my Patreon Blog Roz Interim. This one hour and 45 minute real-time video is available to Tier 3 subscribers as a bonus video this month. […]
More Fun With Hair (and a Beard)
The brilliant audacity of this hair takes my breath away. It makes me smile.
Hairdos on Television
Don’t get me started. Hairdos on television. So many, so little time. Here’s a sketch of one of my favorite young actors, Marcus Scribner, who plays “Junior” on “Black-ish.” Through the seasons he’s had different hairstyles. His headgear obscures much of the hairdo here, but I was struck by the small dreads just appearing over […]
Salt and Pepper Hair
More volume, varied textures. Check, check. But here we’ve got salt and pepper hair. Lots of white hairs, lots of streaks of black hair, some hair that seems in-between because it is, or because it is in shadow. How many different ways can you think to approach that? On this day I decided to let […]
In Context—Hair Volume and a Note
Volume in hair is always such a glorious surprise. It can float right off the page. (This is a page spread from December 2018. I’m not sure why I didn’t have a date and time on this sketch—I usually write that information automatically on each sketch or page when completed. This book has been archived, […]
The Simple Volume of Hair
Sometimes the best way to capture hair is to look at the volume and capture the large value shapes. It can be more striking than fussing would be. It can make real the cast shadows because of its suggested substance. (Have you guessed yet? October is about hair. I get asked about hair all the […]
The Beauty of Hair
Some people take enormous effort to create a statement with their hair. Their innovative hairstyles are a delight for anyone who sketches. I feel odd writing about the beauty of hair when showing a sketch of a young man. I feel I must use the more “masculine” word “handsome,” but I think that’s some linguistic […]
The Importance of Space
Is the hair in this sketch exaggerated? It’s hard to say. This woman (a contestant on “Project Runway”) had mounds and mounds of curly hair. So much hair, in fact, often not tied back, that I wondered how she got any work done without it always getting in the way. But remember that thought comes […]