My ease of drawing portraits has varied over the past couple of days. Drawing today was much harder than usual for some reason. The pose was not particularly difficult, but the resulting portrait does not move me as much as some of my other recent sketches. The spatial relationship between the face parts are ok […]
I’m surprised as anybody about the way I look from the side.
Although this is a self portrait, I don’t think it looks like me. I think I look like one of the Japanese actors in Kurosawa’s The Seven Samuri, with the bad bald wig.
I concentrated on proportions in this sketch. I wonder how many more expressions I can come up with.
It dawned on me that, since I am doing pencil sketches, I should use sketch paper instead of watercolor paper. In defense of my watercolor paper choice however, I had been planning to tint my sketches; watercolor paper is good for that. Of the face parts, mouths and noses are the most difficult for me […]
I used different pencil grades on this self portrait. I began, as has been my habit, on the left side of the page with a very sharp number 2 pencil, on the ear. This lessens the the smearing. For the dark areas, I used a number 6 pencil, which is very soft. I also made […]
I had a sharper pencil than yesterday. It really makes a difference. Issues to overcome in the next sketch: 1) shadowing in low contrast areas – the left side of the face was uniformly darker and less detailed in the reference photo; 2) subtle shading differences of large areas – difficult to achieve; 3) rendering […]
