Which drawing materials produced the best results? Why? For me, the 4B pencil and the coloured pencils worked best. I think this was because of their capacity to create subtle tonal nuances which seems to be important when drawing faces. Does your self portrait look like you? Show it to a couple of frinds […]
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Research point: Artists’ self portraits
Investigate some artists’ self portrait, both well known artists and lesser known artists. Edward Hopper (American painter, 1882-1967) When thinking whom to select, Edward Hopper came to my mind whose self portraits I had seen in the recent Hopper Exhibition, showing him as a young man and again later in his fifties. The later portrait […]
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Self portrait
I feel that I’ve finally got where I wanted to be all the time! Let’s see whether I can make something out of this project. Exercise: Drawing your face The task – Draw several five-minute sketches of your face from different angles to face and head – Draw five more quick sketches focusing on the […]
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