4/27/16 charcoal (10-min. pose) |
Today in Bill Evans’ Quick Sketch class, we practiced drawing a model. He gave several 5-minute
demos that were especially informative because he described every mark he made,
as he made it, and explained what his intention was with each. I am always impressed
by instructors who can articulate what they are doing during demos (I can
barely mutter my way through casual conversation while I’m drawing).
While I’ve sketched the full figure often enough in life-drawing
sessions, I almost never focus only on the head. Today’s lesson included
practicing the portrait in five- and 10-minute poses. I enjoyed making these challenging
sketches, and I decided I’d try doing more portraits next time I go to life
drawing.
Speaking of portraits, Gabi Campanario passed along a very interesting exercise he learned from Gary Faigin during a recent lecture at
Gage about portraiture. As practice for life drawing, Faigin recommends drawing
heads and faces from imagination – attempting to make them look like actual
people, not generic. As soon as I saw Gabi’s imaginary portraits on Facebook
and heard about the exercise, I wanted to try it, too. I think my attempts below are
OK as far as not looking generic, but some verge on being cartoonish or caricatures.
Still, I had so much fun doing these that I’m going to try this exercise more
often.
4/27/16 inks, brush pen (from imagination) |
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