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Latest Artwork: Hand Studies in Pencil/Gouache, and Watercolor Food Illustration

9/10/2017

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​Hello! Here are some sketches and paintings I did this week .

​This was my second week starting my days with hand sketches and it's amazing to see how much I have improved already. I can tell I am getting faster and faster at drawing the initial hand shapes and proportions. Next week I want to focus on creating cleaner and more effective hatching and crosshatching when adding in shadows.


Hand gouache painting by Erika Lancaster
Hand gouache painting. Reeves gouache tubes on Canson Mixed-Media sketchbook.

The first painting included here was created with gouache and it is literally the second painting I have done using this media. Gouache is something that I want to keep improving at. The second was created using watercolors and it was a remake of a painting I had done several months ago.

This exercise was something I was interested in doing because I wanted to be able to compare two paintings of the same subject created months apart. After that are my morning hand sketches of the week which I post on 
Instagram and Twitter
 every morning from Monday through Friday. 
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Watercolor food illustration by Erika Lancaster
Watercolor coffee cup and biscotti painting. Winsor and Newton watercolors on Canson watercolor paper.
Original photo by Jonathan Pielmayer found on Unsplash here.

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Hand pencil sketch by Erika Lancaster
Daily hand pencil sketches. Canson Mixed-Media sketchbook.


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Hand pencil sketch by Erika Lancaster
Daily hand pencil sketches. Canson Mixed-Media sketchbook.


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Hand pencil sketch by Erika Lancaster
Daily hand pencil sketches. Canson Mixed-Media sketchbook.


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Hand pencil sketch by Erika Lancaster
Daily hand pencil sketches. Canson Mixed-Media sketchbook.


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NicheCanvas link
6/15/2022 05:30:58 am

Your article is creative, fun to read and has a great tone. You mention the benefits of drawing with your hands in addition to using traditional materials like pencils which I think is so cool! The only thing that could make it better would be more detail about how you can start doing hand sketching today - thanks for sharing this information with us :)

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Erika Lancaster link
6/15/2022 11:44:14 am

Hey, there!
Thanks so much for checking this one out. :)
I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it.
Wish you a great day and take good care.

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