Pencil on sketch pad. From photos.
Monday, July 26, 2010
A few quick-sketch straight-line head gesture block-in starts
Graphite (mechanical pencil) on sketchpad. From photos.
Friday, July 23, 2010
Beginning block-in - 7/22/10
Charcoal on toned paper.This is the first step in a head study. More later.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Head study - 7/20/10
Charcoal on newsprint. From a photo.This is the same model (photo) as yesterday's post; but larger, slower, and taken farther. Now I'm embarrassed when I look at the one I did yesterday. Neither drawing is a good likeness of the subject, but today's study is fair. Her face (now that it's finished) is a little too wide. Yesterday's is a little too narrow. You can take a drawing to a high level of finish and have a good-looking drawing, even without an accurate likeness. That's OK for practice, but not if you're working for a client. So my goal is to get to the next level and achieve an accurate likeness every time.
Monday, July 19, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Head sketch - 7/15/10
Prismacolor black on sketchpad. From a photo. This isn't today's sketch. I'm having a bad drawing day.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Monday, July 12, 2010
Head sketch - 7/12/10
Mechanical pencil on sketch pad.This is a small quick sketch. Enlarging a small drawing makes it look less refined, rougher. Reducing the size has the opposite effect, refining the image. This head is about one and three quarters inch high. From a magazine photo.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Monday, July 5, 2010
Friday, July 2, 2010
Charcoal head study-7/2/10
Charcoal on newsprintThis started as a 30 minute sketch, but I spent probably another 10 minutes fixing things before I shot it and posted it. From my file of magazine photos titled "Photos for practice drawings."
