EARLY ACCESS // portrait sketches (Patreon)

One thing that I’ve kind of missed doing lately was some quick stylized portraits. I’ve been doing a lot of studies lately, but I kind of lost my flow when it comes to rougher portraits in my own style. I feel like I fall back on realism too much and have lost the ability to turn them into “loish characters” when I draw them. So I got myself a new small moleskine book and did a few portraits over the last weeks. These are some of my earlier attempts where I wasn’t really sure where I was going with the stylization. When I drew the last one, it finally ‘clicked’ and I started to feel more comfortable with stylizing them.

I also added some color to a few of them in Photoshop, again with the focus on stylization. Even though this is major comfort zone stuff, it’s been really fun to do. I’ve really missed doing quicker sketches like these, but was somehow not able to do it because I was too much in the ‘realistic study’ mode and not enough in a ‘drawing characters’ mindset! Hope you like them.