Tag: Elize Ryd

This one is a rather old portrait that I drew back in 2017. I never drew a background for this picture but always promised myself that I’d come back to doing so one day. That day happend to come two years later, when I finally felt like I had an idea on how to approach things. The Anders Fridén portrait had given me the final inspiration that I needed. So I took a proper picture of the old drawing and once again used my tablet to give it the final touch. I tried a lot of different colours for the logo, switching them back and forth, until I was finally happy with the result.

Paper size: A4

Materials: Faber Castell blacklead pencils, Autodesk Sketchbook

Time: approx. 12 hours (1 hour for the digital “upgrade”)

Reference photo used for the drawing: cover of the album “Amaranthe”

With October coming up it was time to draw another metal lady – Elize Ryd from Amaranthe. As her birthday is in the middle of October it seemed to be the perfect time to draw a portrait of her. Finding reference photos wasn’t very difficult but choosing one was. When I had finally decided, I started with sketching and shading Elize’s face. I worked from top to bottom in this portrait, starting with the head, then going down to the shoulders, her dress, the arm and finally her corset (or whatever it is). The very last and final thing to draw were all the tiny sequins on her dress, that took me quite some time to draw but also gave the portrait it’s final touch. I left the background empty because I didn’t really know how to fill it at that time but I promised myself that I’d complete the drawing one day.

Paper size: A4

Materials: Faber Castell blacklead pencils

Time: approx. 11 hours

Reference photo used for the drawing: cover of the album “Amaranthe”