Wednesday, 22 January 2014

Pencil sketch of Nigel Farage

This drawing of Nigel Farage is a first attempt at trying to nail his likeness, probably more later once I have worked out which bits are wrong, I guess a problem with this sort of thing is that having drawn it I find it very difficult to even tell if most people would even recognise which politician it is that I have tried to draw this time.

I am in a general sense working up to doing some caricatures of political figures and I think that perhaps the first stage in this is to be able to sketch a reasonable likeness fairly quickly, first in pencil and then with paint.
Technically this was a grade B 0.5mm propelling pencil and the paper the £2.99 48 sheet field sketch book sold by The Works in Ramsgate Garden Centre 150gsm paper.

The shading would have been better using an ordinary pencil where I could have used the side of the lead. 

 Another go this time using an ordinary 2B pencil same paper, different things wrong with this one I think 
 I tried coloured pencils on this one, something I haven't used since school
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7 comments:

  1. UnknownJanuary 23, 2014 11:28 pm

    Here's the film of the protest
    http://youtu.be/G4H-VkvVjpw

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  2. UnknownJanuary 23, 2014 11:29 pm

    Here's the film of the protest
    http://youtu.be/G4H-VkvVjpw

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  3. UnknownJanuary 23, 2014 11:29 pm

    Here's the film of the protest
    http://youtu.be/G4H-VkvVjpw

    ReplyDelete
  4. UnknownJanuary 23, 2014 11:29 pm

    Here's the film of the protest
    http://youtu.be/G4H-VkvVjpw

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  5. UnknownJanuary 23, 2014 11:29 pm

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  6. Michael ChildJanuary 24, 2014 9:55 am

    Goodness me Christine have you gone critical or do you need to clear your browsing data?

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    1. UnknownJanuary 25, 2014 7:04 pm

      Sorry michael! But I'm always critical... Will try harder
      Christine

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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.