A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I’m back at life drawing after a long, long gap (see here) and I’m using these sessions to practice portrait drawing. I’ve set myself some goals and I’ll probably be doing this every Thursday evening for the next year or so. These are my sketches from week 2. The model is new to me and it takes me a while, and a fair few sketches, to get used to a face. By sketch 9 I think I had a reasonable likeness. Her hair was fascinating to draw, I had a great time with the mark-making, it’s such an important part of drawing, I think. I did some in graphite block and some in HB pencil.
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