Tag: portrait practise
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Finished a Sketchbook
I finished a sketchbook today. I’m not sure how many pages it has, but it’s now full of graphite portrait drawings and sketches done in twenty minutes or less. The top right is the first page, and the centre bottom is the last page, which I sketched today, and the others are some of my…
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Nasally Challenged
This is a very challenging reference, and I feel I am going to have her on my table for a while, working away until I master the nose. The head tilt and the hair makes what’s happening around the nose and hidden eye very difficult to translate. I started out with a twenty minute sketch,…
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Mirrie Dancers
I’m still obsessed with gel printing from orange bags, and obsessed in general with my little 3×5″ gel plate. Aside from playing with that, and more work filling my little gel plate sketchbook, I made a face in my A4 book. So many ways to make a face – realistic portraiture, or using a reference…
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Turquoise and Mars Red Oxide
It occurred to me yesterday that since I finished the last A4 sketchbook, I have lost a little bit of momentum, and the new A4 sketchbook and I are not having the same relationship as the old one. I don’t know if that makes sense. It probably doesn’t, I mean they are essentially the same…
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Resistance Every Day
I show up here every day, even if I only have a teeny tiny piece of art that is the sole creative output of my day. I show up because once I have been here and posted ‘this is what I made today’ I know that I have beaten fitever wur cauin the deil the…
Thrummie Bizzum 