I’m still practising drawing Baby, and here is young Luke – at 14 weeks old – practising tummy time. He’s pretty good at it – see how well he hold his head up now! – and rolled over for the first time on Saturday. Well done little dude! He’s cooing and babbling a lot now, he has strange conversations with the ceiling fan. He is just so interested in all of the world around him.
I’ve drawn the eyes a bit too big, and the head’s probably too long. I drew this in copic 0.05, with cotman watercolours, in the baby’s journal, drawn from a photo taken at the weekend. I normally draw Luke in pecil but have been trying to do pen, even though you cannot erase your mistakes when the eyes look too close together and stuff, and I quite like the effect in this one.
Here are some more pen sketches of Luke from his journal showing his difficult to capture baby expressions. I’ll keep practising!
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He is going to LOVE these drawings one day. I know I could produce some gorgeous paintings of my daughter from photos we’ve taken, but I’m hoping to improve my sorely-lacking skills at sketching her from life … It’s so hard, when she is about as relaxed as a hummingbird. Flowers and shoes are so much easier to draw.
My little girl never really got to grips with tummy time: I can recall only one occasion when she enjoyed it enough not to frustratedly try rolling back over after about 2 seconds. I caught photos of the moment, however! It’s a very cute time.
yeah, lukey doesn’t really like tummy time that much, not for too long anyway. I hope he likes his journal drawings some day, I just have to keep recording stuff in it.