The drawing dutchy Just a Dutchy drawing portraits with soft pastel or graphite pencils. Menu Close Home About Blog Portfolio Pricing Contact me Home About Blog Portfolio Pricing Contact me What was my inspiration for this lion drawing? So I finished my lion drawing a few days ago, it was a challenge and so much fun to draw! I am so happy I found this reference picture, by Rob Porter (Unsplash). I didn’t decide to draw this just because I liked the reference. It being my first drawing of 2024, I decided it had to be one that gave me a little challenge.  I also spend the time I don’t…

The drawing dutchy Just a Dutchy drawing portraits with soft pastel or graphite pencils. Menu Close Home About Blog Portfolio Pricing Contact me Home About Blog Portfolio Pricing Contact me 2024! A blank page ready for a drawing! Happy New Year! Okay, we are already over a week into the new year, the start of this year has been a bit stormy, literally. Denmark, where I live got hit by a snowstorm and that has given us all some challenges. But it’s also given me a bit of time to think and play. There is something about this crisp white world in which everything looks brighter. After a long time…

The drawing dutchy Just a Dutchy drawing portraits with soft pastel or graphite pencils. Menu Close Home About Blog Portfolio Pricing Contact me Home About Blog Portfolio Pricing Contact me My christmassy guinea pig – drawing. I get weird around the holidays. I like them, but I also get reminded of those who are not with me and that hurts a little. So I’ll pretend I don’t care and that I am a “scrooge”. But I wanted to do a christmas themed drawing this year, whitout going overboard on the actual theme. I also wanted to test making backgrounds and underpaintings with gouache to save a bit of time. I…

The drawing dutchy Just a Dutchy drawing portraits with soft pastel or graphite pencils. Menu Close Home About Blog Portfolio Pricing Contact me Home About Blog Portfolio Pricing Contact me This drawing hurts and makes me smile at the same time. It’s a weird title, I know. I just didn’t know what else to call this post, because it is centered around the loss of a very special man. We lost our dad on the 21st of November. We didn’t just lose him on the 21st, we lost him bit by bit for years, as he had Parkinson’s and dementia.Those smaller losses, bit by bit were most noticeable by my…

The drawing dutchy Just a Dutchy drawing portraits with soft pastel or graphite pencils. Menu Close Home About Blog Portfolio Pricing Contact me Home About Blog Portfolio Pricing Contact me My pastel drawing of Amjo – walkthrough work in progress. My first ever commission! To say that I was nervous to start this is an understatement, but I was also super excited to get to work with this! Here I will walk you through the process and steps of a pastel drawing like this with pictures side by side with my explanation.  Before I start any drawing, I edit my reference picture in Krita. You can use any photo editing/drawing software,…

The drawing dutchy Just a Dutchy drawing portraits with soft pastel or graphite pencils. Menu Close Home About Blog Portfolio Pricing Contact me Home About Blog Portfolio Pricing Contact me Ragnar Lothbrok, graphite on a3 Fabriano paper (240gsm) My first ever finished portrait drawing on a3 sized paper.   After I had drawn a few smaller sized drawings and completed them, I decided I needed to buy better paper. The sketchbook I had been using is nice enough but not super good quality paper so the darker darks wont “stick”. Seeing that I needed new paper anyway, I wanted to buy bigger than a4 sized paper because I wanted to…

The drawing dutchy Just a Dutchy drawing portraits with soft pastel or graphite pencils. Menu Close About Blog Portfolio Pricing Contact me About Blog Portfolio Pricing Contact me Hi everyone!I wanted to show you all a very old drawing I made. It’s small, in a small sketchbook, drawn in ink. But it is an interesting one for me. When I showed it to people, they saw the eye. They saw there was some technique or skill behind it. They liked it. Those that did, told me they loved it and how well done it was. It has a “hidden” meaning. Too hidden I suppose. Because the silhouette of the person…

The drawing dutchy Just a Dutchy drawing portraits with soft pastel or graphite pencils. Menu Close Home About Blog Portfolio Pricing Contact me Home About Blog Portfolio Pricing Contact me Hand drawing – graphite on sketchbook paper Eye study, graphite on sketchbook paper. Woohoo I have a website! I mean, it’s a little empty for now but I’ll get there! I figured I’ start all of this off with the first two drawings I did when i started drawing again in 2021. I had had a decade long struggle with not being able to finish any drawings or art. I was too insecure and afraid that my work would not…