Sketch-A-Day Challenge: Portraits On Paper

Sketch-A-Day Challenge: Portraits On Paper

I am down to my last week of sketches to complete my personal month challenge of a portrait sketch a day. Here are the sketches I have completed since my last update. This time around I explored the styles of stippling, hatching and graphic line illustration techniques.  It was another round of family, friends, artists, writers and musicians. Click on their highlighted names to learn more about them and support their craft!

Bianca aka BinksWhobutme is a photographer

Lucy WarCry Warsaw is a poet

Nelson Host Santiago is and artist and currently in a competition to represent NY for RAW Artist in California. Take a look at his work and place your vote up until October 15th!

This is a sketch of a former college classmate of mine who is a musician and model

Bonafide Rojas is a poet, author of When the City Sleeps and Pelo Bueno: A Day In The Life Of A Nuyorican Poet , musician in the band The Mona Passage and founder of Grand Concourse Press

This sketch is of my cousin using the hatching technique

This is a sketch of a beautiful friend  

Peggy Robles- Alvarado is a poet,  performance artist, educator and author of Homenaje A Las Guerreras  and Conversations With My Skin

Alicia Anabel Santos is a writer, performance artist, co-producer at Creador Pictures, playwright, founder of the NYCLWG , activist, and author of Finding Your Force: A Journey to Love

ElStabo is an painter, illustrator and author of the two art books Spanish Fly and Erotic Works

Cheedah is an artist and  a clothing/ accessories designer focusing on Native American art

A stipple sketch of my cousin

A graphic line illustration sketch of my cousin

A baby portrait sketch of my friend’s nephew

And finally another sketch of a friend

Until next time, the sketching continues!

~Nia Andino~