Today launched our second session of the Portrait Drawing Class. We will be working in black and white this session, and I will posting drawings each week.
We talked about composition, how artists think about placing the head and looked at some examples from Gaugain and Van Gogh. Everyone drew quick thumbnail sketches of some possibilities of placement of the head within the rectangle.
As a guide to get started we talked about construction lines that help set the features. We also saw how depending on the tilt of the head, those classic construction lines don't always work and we need to trust our eyes. We used measuring with our pencils held out in front, to check angles and distances. Our model, local musician, Dave Meissmer, was GREAT!!
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