A bit late to the New Year game this year but at least I know why. Clinical depression has been a lifelong struggle but I
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I received this reference image and a demo video from France Van Stone as a freebie for signing up for one of her courses. So
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A fellow artist, Gary Rubin, produces small format pencil portraits and posts them on Instagram. I stumbled upon his work a month or two ago
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I’m pretty happy with this one for two reasons. First, I took a far more relaxed approach to getting a likeness by more or less
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I’ve been drawing as usual lately but lazy at posting. Two reasons, bursitis in my elbow had me feeling feverish and crummy so I slept
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I’ve been sketching and studying several portrait artist videos on YouTube lately and also collecting random images of models for practice. This is one of
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Working on developing my skill at getting a likeness in a face, I attempted a pencil master copy of a John Singer Sargent charcoal portrait.
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Friday morning I tried life drawing via Zoom with Silhouette & Shadow. They host frequent life drawing opportunities online, do a nice job managing the
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Well, I’m making progress. This one is an excercise from ”How I Crosshatch 3” by France Van Stone. Specifically from the section on Pencil crosshatching.
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