My mind has been preoccupied with the idea of working on some subjects that are out of my comfort zone for drawing. With the ringing in of the New Year, I made a resolution to spend more time on my art and push my self imposed boundaries. It has been on my mind for some time to work on human facial features, but I have been having troubles locating descent photos to work from. Although I hadn't given much thought to the fan art movement, it is hard not to notice the wealth of celebrity photos on the internet. There is a regular treasure trove of subjects to choose from. After looking thru numerous photos, I settled on a small 4x6 of Anne Hathaway. She has some strong features that work perfectly to practice on. Plus, the photo of her had some heavy shadowing that I really need to have when creating graphite drawings.
As you can see below, I have a line drawing that was sketched on transfer paper. This has always been my method, so that I always have the original drawing in case of false starts. ;)
**For those that are new to the Sketches blog, I have a few grids of various sizes drawn on Bristol board that I mount the transfer paper on. I choose the grid that fits the size that I am blowing the drawing up to. After the line drawing is done, I mark the dimensions of the grid on the paper and transfer the drawing onto Bristol board. The grid marks on the drawing are used to recreate a grid on the areas of the drawing that have a lot of detail and will be blended with graphite in the finished composition. The grid, in this case, was constructed over her face and part of her neck.
I would love to show you my early blending on this composition, but blogger would only let me load one picture. Hopefully, blogger will get its glitches fixed over the next few days. I can tell you that I initially struggled with the nose and almost threw the drawing out. Time will tell if the features start to come together. :)
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