Fashion sketching live at Lillet opening in Cologne

Last April I was part of the opening of the Lillet bar “Atelier Aperitiv” in Cologne. They had created the perfect Lillet environment in this room: sweet but artsy, feminine and fresh. And they invited a lot of guests and because we wanted to have all of them drawn I used the same sketching technique I had used before at a Guerlain event: black and white sketch, no shadows and just a water colour background.

You can see the development of such a sketch right below, step by step. First I draw the figure with a very fine marker, while the person is posing. I add just symbolic features for the face, paying attention to the actual face of the sitter, but I am not trying to draw a portrait in such a short time (besides I am definitely not -yet- a portrait artist). I use a Tombow brush pen in grey for those face details.

Then the guest is free to move and I just add some stronger linkes with a flat point marker. It then looks like this:

To that point the drawing has taken me some 4 minutes, as this image shows. This time variates depending on the pose and outfit of the sitter.

And then I just add some watercolour as background, using a big flat brush. And that’s it!

I leave you here some impressions of that evening.

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