Life drawing: Blonde hair gone pink and purple
Pondering my choice of colours when life drawing in colour pencil. And sharing my latest drawings.
For many years now I’ve cast aside boring ol’ graphite pencils and turned to more colourful options when doing life drawing. Somehow I feel more able to scribble away with vigour when drawing in colour, and much more enjoy the resulting images.
One curiosity of that is I sometimes (but not always) land on a particular colour combination I like for a given model. I almost always opt to draw the body and hair in different and contrasting colours. But there’s no particular reason other than how I’m feeling in the moment.
The particular model I was drawing at the most recent session I attended had rather mesmerising wavey hair with lighter highlights, which I seemed quite preoccupied with throughout my drawings. I went through a few colour variations but mostly gravitated towards pinks and purples, straying briefly into reds.
