I did some portrait drawings this afternoon, working with friend and fellow artist Natie. I’m preparing for a major piece of work later this year and need to bring my portrait drawing up to scratch, so Natie dropped by to help me out and I did some drawings in charcoal and chalk onto newspaper.
I find portraiture difficult and it takes quite a few drawings before I get an accurate likeness in a style I like. But that’s par for the course. Art is mostly practice in my experience and there are a lot of failures along the way. The first one is not a bad likeness, but nowhere near as pretty as she actually is and I’m not keen on the drawing technique I’ve used. The second is less like her but I prefer the style, it’s more scribbly.
And here she is, photobombing! The drawing continues, I’m off for the Thursday night life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop now in a minute. I made a Victoria Sandwich to take along, filled with spiced plum jam.
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Great drawings, works so well with the newspaper
Thank you 🙂
Great drawing. Very good. And the spiced plum jam sounds really delicious. Happy weekend! 😉
Thank you. I hope you have a fine weekend. There’s torrential rain here 🙂
Ooooh yum! Haha love the drawings, but I admit, you did distract me with last sentence. Even your gorgeous photobombing friend could not direct me back to the work you had on the walls… I want to see the Victoria Sandwich!! Have a fun session 😉
haha there’s none left! They’re a greedy bunch lol