Daily Sketch – Page 27 – Gina Lento: Fine Art and Illustration

Friendly Faces Day 25

I like that this daily challenge is forcing me to find shortcuts and it’s fun for me to play with the prompts to stretch or exaggerate a feature. Or to head in a completely different direction like using a plant for heart. Today’s prompt is “rock star.“ This sketch, painted with gouache, has not beenContinue reading “Friendly Faces Day 25”

Friendly Faces Day 24

I am starting to go more stylized and less “realistic portrait” with these to speed this challenge up for me… Today’s prompt is pointy chin

Friendly Faces Day 23

Today’s prompt is “heart.” I have this plant on my table that has heart shaped leaves and flowers so I did the plant today for a change of pace. This is technically “plein air” since I did it from life while sitting outdoors.

Friendly Faces Day 22

Today’s prompt is “culture different from your own.”

Friendly Faces Day 21

Today’s prompt is “curious” and we all know why cats have 9 lives….

Friendly Faces Day 20

Today’s prompt is uni-brow. I took a little artistic license with this one… This is gouache on stonehenge paper in my handmade sketchbook. Reference photo submitted by Hugo Pinto on Sktchy.

Friendly Faces Day 19

Happy Memorial Day! Today’s prompt is Pet’s face. I was going to sketch Chloe and Mack together, but it’s a small sketchbook and I would have to squeeze both on a 5×5 page, so I opted to do Mack this time. I’ll do a Sketch of Chloe later. This is Mack just before his summerContinue reading “Friendly Faces Day 19”

Friendly Faces Day 18

Today’s prompt is toothy grin… I took the photo to show the sketchbook that I have been using for this challenge…

Friendly Face Day 17

Today’s prompt is square. I sketched a square on my page and built out the features from there. It was a fun exercise.

Friendly Faces Challenge

I joined this challenge to brush up on my gouache skills. Not that I really need it but when I play with a material for a while, creative things happen. I use two different types of gouache and this one is chalky and you can reactivate it. It handles differently so I like to tryContinue reading “Friendly Faces Challenge”