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Quarantine Portrait Series: Self Portrait with Higher Resolution

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Most (if not all) of my quarantine self portraits have used a photo booth (app) photograph as reference for my sketch.  Today I flipped the camera to selfie mode to take the reference picture. The resolution was much higher and I could zoom in for a close look at details.  One can tell from the […]

Quarantine Portrait Series: Self Portrait, Profile with Neck

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Quarantine has limited my range of subjects to sketch (mostly me).  To compensate, I have been sketching photos of myself, taken from different vantage points, to try capturing facial features seen from a variety of angles, through shading and attending to relative proportions. I’m sure I can apply the lessons I learn from these exercises […]

Quarantine Portrait Series: Self Portrait, Half Silhouette

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I was leaning over for this study. I wanted to try drawing my neck (such as it is).  However, what commanded my interest more was the half of my face in silhouette and the rim of my glasses that caught the light.

Quarantine Portrait Series: Self Portrait Looking Upward

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I am looking forward to trying my ‘facial feature proximity’ technique on live subjects instead of my photo, when shelter in place is over.   It was a bit counterintuitive, when I noticed that my right nostril was really close to my right eye. It was even closer in the photo.  The lesson I take […]