This week's portrait class
Value studies of Mr. Plasterhead, (the one with hair.)
we toned our drawing paper with hard pastel by grinding it to dust with a sanding block, then burnsihing it in with a paper towel. This became our eraser. then we blocked out our head, and used a kneaded eraser to locate everything lighter than the tone. The goal was 5 values, and to eliminate all lines from our final drawing, describing everything with shape and light-next-to-dark.
the second one had strange underlighting, and I did it much more quickly than the first. Yes, its the same plaster head, in spite of looking like a totally different person! Also, teacher noted it has a strange skew, due to my bifocals sliding off my nose and poor easel placement!
yup, it's humbling how challenging this is!
we toned our drawing paper with hard pastel by grinding it to dust with a sanding block, then burnsihing it in with a paper towel. This became our eraser. then we blocked out our head, and used a kneaded eraser to locate everything lighter than the tone. The goal was 5 values, and to eliminate all lines from our final drawing, describing everything with shape and light-next-to-dark.
the second one had strange underlighting, and I did it much more quickly than the first. Yes, its the same plaster head, in spite of looking like a totally different person! Also, teacher noted it has a strange skew, due to my bifocals sliding off my nose and poor easel placement!
yup, it's humbling how challenging this is!