I set myself several challenges this year, and one of them was to submit a piece in response to every Let’s Face It class. I have sixteen classes that are either partially done, or just in the well-I-watched-the-demo stage.
In the spirit of staying current, this week’s class was by Robert Kelley, who is exceptional with charcoal. I am not exceptional with charcoal, but I am reminded of how much I enjoy it, and that I should play with it more often.
I chose my own reference (from Unsplash) and I have done a sketch from this drawing once before, I think in watersoluble graphite.
For this drawing I found the jawline in the shadow challenging, because my brain wanted to even up her face, and her jaw is set in a cheeky pose. I’m happy enough with it though.
I’m absolutely loving the fact that Facebook is now censoring actual art, and dumping it at the arse end of the algorithm, but any climate-change inducing AI slop gets bumped right to the top. That’s just soul-destroying, especially when FB is scraping the real art to supply the machines with things to copy.
What a world.
Til the morn,
Suzanne
271/300
Thrummie Bizzum 
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