Week 6 Putting It All Together

What a great model we had today, Miles Cobos. It was his first time modeling, and we all are hoping he will come back for a painting session. Today we talked about some of the areas outside the concentration of the features: the hair, the ear, and the neck. We talked about some of the traditional conventions people use in landscape painting and how we can apply that to the portrait. Specifically, hard and soft edges, high contrast forward, less contrast in back. Even in our short poses, we strive to make good observation of these "outer areas" of the portrait. We looked at a diagram of a sphere to see simple versions of shadows and darker core shadows close to the source of light. We are learning to apply this to shadow observations of the face.