Right now I'm in Life drawing II and we had a really neat homework assignment and class assignment this last week. Most times we work on drawing the figure as a whole, building volume and form, but this week we focused on the face.
Today I worked on the homework: a cutout style self-portrait. It took about 5 hours from set up to the final product. Kinda kickin myself that I didn't think to record the process, or at least take step-by-step pictures. I'm new to this whole "sharing my process" thing. Sucks too since I'm quite happy with how I went about it all the way through. I was just too eager to get to the final product to slow down and take pictures/video. Definitely will keep it in mind next time. Anyways, I'm happy with the way it came out and I'd really like to continue doing this sort of project on my own.
I do have a couple process shots that helped me look at it more..objectively? I suppose that's the word for it.
Ended up color coding because the charcoal I used for sketching didn't dark enough. It was too hard to tell black from mid-tone.
and just for giggles, the aftermath:
For last weeks' class we worked on drawing the model's face. I used charcoal and conte crayon on mi-teintes. Here is my process.
Preliminary sketch, day one:
end of class, day one:
end of class, day two:
With a little tweaking, I know I'll get to making it look complete. Fix the balance and whatnot, I can spot a few places that need the work. I'll get to that when I've got extra time. For now though I think it came out well.
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