Maria knows something you don't ...

Or that's how it alwats feels with this tiny one ...
Prismacolors and one li'l niece

Alvaro and Maria

4 years and 3 month old, respectively. Prismacolors

Julian

My godson. Why won't kids stop moving for a single second? :P

Ian (Retratista Nomada Malaga)

Malagrafica: Melanie Reim

Rafa

Lorena

Lamy Safari fountain pen and Schmincke watercolors

Comiendo bocatas en Malagráfica

Cái, Cái vs Graná! 

Retratista Nomada (14/05/16)

Our models from the last session. 4 colors Bic ballpen and Neocolor wax

And the sketchers themselves here ... (Sailor fountain pen)

Retratista Nomada Malaga: Cafe de Indias

Some 15 minutes portraits with the group Retratista Nomada Malaga, yesterday at Cafe de Indias. Full female cast this time

Breakfast-sketchers

Dibuja con Gusto (De Vuelta con el Cuaderno)

Some quick notes from last year DVCC.

Retratista Nomada marzo

More portraits with the group Retratista Nomada Malaga at Vialia.
Neocolor wax, 8B pencil and Stillman Birn gamma sketchbook

Retratista Nomada (April)

Some 15 minutes live portraits with the group Retratista Nomada Malaga
Bic ballpen, Neocolor wax and Stillman & Birn gamma sketchbook

Watching Gumball with the kid

Believe it or not, the kid moves faster than the characters

Retratista Nomada (Malaga, noviembre 2015)

El Retratista Nomada: La Bella Julieta (Malaga)

Meet at a coffee shop with a group of friends, ask some random person to pose for 15 minutes and see what you can do :)

Alvaro

Why is it so bloody hard to draw small kids?

Clara

A quick portrait of my elder niece I did on the pad while she was talking to mom the other day. I can still remember when she was three ...

Maleficent

I realized this week that it had been years since I did any watercolor (I color everything with watercolors, but, of course, it's not the same) and, since I had some spare time this sunday, I decided it was time to practice. I decided to draw Maleficent (one of the best movies to go watch with your god-daughter, mind you :D) because I wanted to dabble with all the green washes, so first things first, I sketched Angelina Jolie (as best as I could in 10 minutes tops) using a S sepia Pitt marker. I added some shadows with a B Pitt warm grey before I applied any color at all. I even decided to go all crazy and use some mask fluid that had been in a box for at least 7 years. Gee, it still works!

This is what I got after I applied the first wash of blue/dark grey color, leaning the sketchbook top-bottom so that pigment would go down.

This is the second go at colors, in this case leaning the sketchbook bottom top so the green and yellow would go upwards. I also used the wet on wet technnique to get some random water effect in the background. You can see that the parts where I put mask fluid are all white. Not cool.

After adding some blue to the masked areas and some shadow to the tunic, we are almost done ...

... but I ALWAYS outline the outer border of the sketch to gain some depth quick and easy.

And this is the size of the sketch: A3 if anyone was wondering, i.e. way larger than I'm used to.