Apr 15, 2011
The Last of the Portraitans
Today was the last day of drawing Mohicans... I mean portraits in my Figurative Concepts class. Dottie was our model, and while I didn't capture her likeness, it was still a fairly pleasing way to end my portrait drawing career here at the Academy (by which I mean I had better not have to ever draw them again).
And the homework for the week, which I forgot to post the other day, was an EXTREME Self-Portrait*. [*Basically just a self-portrait where we use our hands to push around our facial features.]
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Just a curious noob question, what materials have you used for the portraits. And I just have to add I like them alot. Would like to try to do something like that. Keep up the good work.
Excellent question! For class, we basically follow the rules set-up in the book "The Artist's Complete Guide to Drawing the Head" by William L. Maughan (who used to teach here at the Academy of Art).
The paper is "Velvet Gray"-colored Charcoal paper. I believe the brand I used was Canson's Mi-Tientes. Then we draw on it with CarbOthello pastel pencils. Two colors: Caput Martuum Red (Number 645) and Titanium White (Number 100). Heads were always drawn approximately life-size.
Hope that helps. Good luck and thanks for checking out my blog!
Thankyou for the tip. I am looking forward to your next post.
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