The human face is the most challenging of all artist endeavors. There is so much that can be communicated in the face through expression and pose. Every picture should tell a story and you could paint or sketch the same person a hundred times and never repeat the same expression or duplicate the same message.
I believe an artist must draw portrait often and paint people with every opportunity. So when I had a few minutes on a Sunday afternoon with nothing else to do I pulled out a magazine with some people and randomly selected one to sketch. I do not waste time choosing since I will eventually sketch all of them.
I have some art supplies hidden under the couch so I can respond to the artist craving if it should hit me while I am sitting in the living room watching tv or something, so I pulled the pad and a generic pencil out and began a quick scribble sketch of the face of a young lady sitting on a gypsy wagon step illustrated in the magazine.
My approach was to just sketch quickly and not worry about details. I scribbled things in place lightly and then scribbled corrections over the first scribble. Appling more pressure I added more form and shading. There was another round of corrections with hasty scribbles and more shading. This was my approach throughout as more pressure was applied and values deepened.
Only when the picture was done did I erase anything and that was only a little around the eyes to sharpen the detail some and a little lifting of some shadows that had gotten out of control.
Often I spend a lot of time with a blending stub but this time I only used the stub around the background. It is a drawing and not a photo, so I am not trying to make it look super realistic but just to represent the subject while making a piece of art.
It turned out to be a nice value study of a face. It would be the first step to doing a more serious painting.
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I believe an artist must draw portrait often and paint people with every opportunity. So when I had a few minutes on a Sunday afternoon with nothing else to do I pulled out a magazine with some people and randomly selected one to sketch. I do not waste time choosing since I will eventually sketch all of them.
I have some art supplies hidden under the couch so I can respond to the artist craving if it should hit me while I am sitting in the living room watching tv or something, so I pulled the pad and a generic pencil out and began a quick scribble sketch of the face of a young lady sitting on a gypsy wagon step illustrated in the magazine.
My approach was to just sketch quickly and not worry about details. I scribbled things in place lightly and then scribbled corrections over the first scribble. Appling more pressure I added more form and shading. There was another round of corrections with hasty scribbles and more shading. This was my approach throughout as more pressure was applied and values deepened.
Only when the picture was done did I erase anything and that was only a little around the eyes to sharpen the detail some and a little lifting of some shadows that had gotten out of control.
Often I spend a lot of time with a blending stub but this time I only used the stub around the background. It is a drawing and not a photo, so I am not trying to make it look super realistic but just to represent the subject while making a piece of art.
It turned out to be a nice value study of a face. It would be the first step to doing a more serious painting.
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I hope you enjoyed seeing my work.
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