I took part in yet another brilliant sketching event on Tuesday night.
Do you remember February's Dr Sketchy event with the bearded ladies in basques? Well, this time it was Sheffield's Roller Derby team, the Sheffield Steel Rollergirls, complete with helmets, pads and skates.
By 7pm, the back room at The Greystones was heaving with sketchers, pencils at the ready... And we had to be pretty quick off the mark, as we had to squeeze no less than 8 poses into just 2 hours.
It was even more tricky this time round too, not just because we had only 5, 10 or 15 minutes per sketch (!), but because several poses involved anything up to 5 Roller Girls on stage at once.
It was even more tricky this time round too, not just because we had only 5, 10 or 15 minutes per sketch (!), but because several poses involved anything up to 5 Roller Girls on stage at once.
3 Comments on Sheffield Steel Rollergirls: illuSKATE this!, last added: 4/28/2012
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When I frist started reading I thought you were sketching while they were skating! Glad they stopped and posed for you. The soft sepia and blue work well together - are those soft coloured pencils?
Oh....these are just fantabulous!
Thankyou for posting, Lynne.
They've made my day!
Thank you!
The black and white drawings are a 6B graphite stick, the coloured ones are Derwent's Inktense watercolour pencils, which I would highly recommend: the colour is much richer than other watercolour pencils I have tried.