Friday, February 07, 2014

29 FACES - DAY 7

[My challenge is to draw a face from the front page of the Seattle Times from that day.]


I started this challenge out doing blind contour drawings, and every day I've gotten less and less blind and more exacting trying to get the features correct.

This drawing I really tried to get it right.  I think this guy has a very interesting face with distinct planes, lines and angles.  I started with a pencil and worked at getting the planes and shapes correct.  Then I went over them with the ink pen.  Instead of the watercolor pencils I got out my regular watercolors and used them.  I can always use practice with watercolors.  They don't come easily to me.



This was drawn from a photo on the front page of the February 7, 2014 Seattle times.  The photo is credited to Karl Eisenhower/Kaiser Health News.


4 comments:

  1. I know what you mean about watercolors. This is great!

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  2. Nice job with this! Watercolors don't come easily to me either. I like the writing behind him as well as his face.

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  3. What an interesting collection of faces. It is unusual to find someone primarily drawing men.

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  4. Great series of portraits! Lovely and delicate line work. (I'm not sure you're using the 29 Faces tag because the link from 29 Faces goes to a page with no posts!) :)

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