Frida Kahlo development sketches

I started off drawing a few loose sketches to work out how i'd like to draw the characters in my book. I also sketched a few different details to see what I think worked best, for example I drew a few different eyebrow styles and ear rings. When I decided what I think worked best I combined them into more refined drawings that I could work into digitally. As I cant work from a real person as I am drawing a particular person from history I had to draw from photos from the internet

In the end I think that the top and bottom left drawings worked out best so I will clean these up and work into them digitally. These will then go into the book. 

Sketchbook Research

This weekend i have been working on some sketchbook stuff for the London exhibition. I wanted to get inspired and become more creative within my sketchbooks so i decided to look at a few youtube videos showing students sketchbooks. I really enjoyed looking through the different sketchbooks.
i realised that i have to work on my layouts a lot more and not just draw one static image in the middle of the page as that isn't as interesting to look at. I also really liked the sketchbooks that incorporated writing and pasted in things as well as drawing, I might try that in the future. I also think i will try out using coloured pencil to draw with as i think it worked really well in these skeychbooks.  Here are some of my favourite ones from drawing tutorials online's youtube channel. They are quite long but well worth looking at :)