This was a fun one! This is Khaleesi in Game of Thrones and decided to give it a go. I liked the hair and lighting. It was good practice and still working plum lines and lips.
Tag: sketches
30-Day Sketches | at a Coffee Shop
While at a local coffee shop today, I found the opportunity to do a super quick sketch and challenge myself. (Coffee shops are good places, most folks are pretty much still mos of the time.) He was a distance away and I knew I had 3-4 minutes and that was it. It came out slightly…
Torso Sketches and Blind Contour
The session this evening at the art studio (The San Diego Art Loft) was a fun one! We drew from 2-minute torso poses and one blind contour pose. We also did 2, 20-minute sessions of the same pose. After the session, I went back into the full figure pose to fill in the darks…
Portrait Sketch
I was inspired by my father-on-law taken from this photograph from my wedding. It’s a great photo of him and my wife dancing together, pre-health issues, that he later was to lose his battle with diabetes. Good thing that I had my sketchbook while at the DMV today. You know how that goes and long…
Graphite Exercises for Eyes, Noses, and Mouths
Over the first three weeks into the online course (through The Watts Atelier, San Diego), we’ve focused on these areas of the human portrait. I realize that shapes don’t have to be perfect and how much that perspective and depth has to be considered. It has been a fun and still a bit challenging so far.
Nose Charcoal Sketch
The assignment for week: nose sketches. I chose vine charcoal because of its texture and how I can smudge the medium into shapes. I’m starting to see how this relates to painting by including the background. The darker shade of the background creates a soft line to show the nose and brow ridge. I hate…
Charcoal Exercise with Michelangelo
What better way than to learn from a classical master, Michelangelo. On tracing paper this exercise was to use charcoal sticks to widely cover dark areas. Then go into details with a charcoal pencil.