Thank you! - I started with the highlights first, building them out before I started on the darks atall - this is a method that I strongly advocate for rendering realistic dimension. One of my students had asked me what I was going to work on during the second half of class (this was about 2 1/2 weeks ago) while they were drawing from photographs, and so I decided to ostensibly start from a previous sketch but then let my hand take over in capturing a likeness that I was dwelling on finding but did not have any definitive model for - so literally drawing on intuition, no external model at all really. By the end of that class it was all in white on sepia - I was joking about the face emerging out like the Shroud of Turin.
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Date: 2010-08-14 07:48 am (UTC)