BRUSHTOBER // self portrait
🕑 Added 2020-10-08 10:12:05 +0000 UTCDiving deeper into the ink wash & ecoline for #brushtober! I found a box of ecoline inks from my art school years and discovered that they still work after 15 years, so I used some of them for this drawing!
It’s a self portrait, showing what my hair used to look like before the pandemic hit. I miss having blonde tips, but I’ve decided to wait until the pandemic is over to get my hair dyed again. So for now, this hairstyle is a distant memory which can only be re-lived through art 😂 still getting used to 'painting' rather than 'drawing' for this challenge, hope I find my flow!
Comments
Loish
thanks so much :)
Eddie Uresti
happy belated Birthday Lois :)
Loish
thanks so much!!
Alexander Jaeger
Happy Birthday, Lois🥂 I wish you the best. Stay healthy, stay happy, stay curious, stay active 🥳
Gorgeous 🧡🧡 love the colours
Loish
i'm definitely gonna wait til a hairdresser can do it. my hair is naturally super dark and hard to bleach right, and i don't trust myself to do it haha
Loish
i will film my process for future drawings! for this one I didn't, because I was struggling so much with the medium and filming adds to the stress haha!
Loish
it's a derwent colorsoft pencil!
Sharon Tu
What do you use for the initial sketch? Col-erase?
Sharon Tu
I love it. Thank you for sharing your gifts
Eddie Uresti
so what paper are you using and what is that pen next to the watercolor brush? :)
Iva Hian
This is beautiful ♥️ Will you perhaps take a video while you paint and post it?
Kat Craig
ah this is so cool! I love that you used dark ink for the line work, looks really awesome! And I feel you on the quarantine hair..not so much the dye, but I haven't had a haircut in 8 months -_-
Amélie
This is so beautiful, I love the vibrance of the colors 😍
FaroreNightclaw
Beautiful! I love the hair - it can be hard to get a fade to look right, especially in traditional, without making the hair look too flat, or conversely too piece-y. If you were doing your whole head blonde I'd say just do it at home - I recommend Wella bleach, it's super gentle and works very fast - but for doing faded tips that might be better to wait for a hairdresser unless you're already experienced with doing it alone xD
Jiang Shan
As serious as Loish.
Aadishri Soni
Same. I wanna dye my hair green and blue but I'm waiting for my college to reopen