Portrait of Brian Blessed. Shouting Brian. Drawn in ink, pencil, pen, gel pen, brush pen, charcoal, and sprayed ink.
Brian Blessed
The learner
This is drawn (and painted) in ink, pencil and charcoal and depicts one of my students in Jakarta (where I pretended to be an English teacher for a few years in the early 90s).
It’s all about the lines, I’ve realised. No too much shading. When you first get into drawing, you think it’s all about the shading. But actually, if you get them right, lines work much quicker on the eye.
More Osdorp trees
Osdorp trees
Trees in Osdorperbinnenpolder Noord—drawn in cobalt blue ink and coloured pencil.