Thursday, March 6, 2014

Two Drawing Methods


I am working diligently on my portrait practice but still with mixed results. Here are two of my recent drawings.
Thanks to both of my subjects for allowing me to share these works on line.


 pastel pencil 14 x 11 inches

This pretty young woman had a very concerned look on her face but I could not resist the chance to render her beautiful hair in sanguine pastel.
The original drawing is a little lighter than shown here and looks less severe because of the lighter tones.














Ink and watercolour, 7 x 11  inches

I find it much easier to do a continuous line drawing of a face in profile than straight on. Not all of the shapes are accurate and you can see some places where I have made restatements of the lines. The watercolour wash serves to add a little shading.
It even kind of looks like Don.