Line drawing of Ron Swanson. This started out as another cyanotype portrait but I didn’t see it through this time.
Ron Swanson
Mrs. Slocombe cyanotype
Mrs. Slocombe—another cyanotype experiment. In the last picture you can see the paper template I used to make the print, and below that the exposed print just before washing.
Alan Partridge
Alan Partridge—a cyanotype experiment.
What I did was cut out various Alan Partridge shapes. The hair, jacket and tie use tracing paper, and the face and shirt are from thick (300g) paper. Over the hair shape I put some extra slices of paper, and on the glass that holds the whole thing down, I drew lines in the hair, the edge of the lapels, and over the tie.
The thick paper blocks almost all the light, but some gets through with the tracing paper, so you can build up tones in the image. On the best version, I then drew in Alan’s facial features with gel pen, biro and pencil.
Based on a screenshot from ‘This Time with Alan Partridge’.
Jaron Lanier
Linocut prints of Jaron Lanier.
Ken Wilber
Portrait of Ken Wilber in black ballpoint pen, isopropanol, gel pen, black pencil, white pencil, white gouache.
Tim Freke
Portrait of Tim Freke.
“Here we are. This is happening to us. We’re heading to death. We now know we’re living in an enormous universe which is extremely old. What do you make of it? What do you think this is? And what do you think we should do with it?”
This one is drawn in ballpoint pen (2 types), gel pen and isopropanol. This time though, I squeezed the ink out of the pen with a pair of pliers, and painted with it direct on the paper, mixed with a bit of isopropanol. You don’t need much.
Portrait of Bob Ross
Bob Ross. The first thing I do every day is put on Bob Ross.
Available as a print on Society 6.
Noud
Drawing of Noud, who was at the Creatievelingen samenwerkingen meetup last night in Leeuwarden. A really quick drawing.
Ballpoint pen portraits
I’ve wanted to draw something with a Bic biro for ages—that indigo blue kills me. Then I found that spraying a bit of isopropanol makes the ink run, and you get this great watery effect. (Though it seems to be only the magenta pigment that runs. The cyan doesn’t seem to run much).
Drawn on 300g brilliant white Clairalfa inkjet paper.
The Bob Mortimer was the first I tried this way. It looks OK… but there are probably too many lines going on.
