Pictures by Derek Bacon
Double portrait of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.
‘We all remember Charlie‘. This is number 5 in my ‘Date night‘ series—drawings of people I’d love to spend a few hours with. Imaginary meet ups with unlikely people across time.
Line drawing of Ron Swanson. This started out as another cyanotype portrait but I didn’t see it through this time.
Bob Ross. The first thing I do every day is put on Bob Ross.
Available as a print on Society 6.
Somewhere in Groningen from yesterday’s sketchcrawl with the Urban Sketchers Netherlands. It was pretty cold, so I didn’t sketch or crawl too much. But me and Gail found a sweet spot in a cafe, and I drew this from the window.
Icelandic volcanoes. Well, I think they’re volcanoes. They might just be mountains. Sketchbook pages: ink, pencil, coloured pencil, gel pen and biro sketches from southern Iceland. Click them to look closer.
A pencil, ink and charcoal drawing of someone drawing at the Open Draw in Amsterdam, which Gail used to run. But not anymore.
Terry Collins. For years, Terry was one of the tallest things you could find in Jakarta. I made this picture to celebrate his 30 years there. One morning, about a year later, I got an email saying Terry was gone. Then, later still, I heard they’d used this picture at his memorial service.
Drawn in Photoshop and based on two blokes I saw on CNN this afternoon.