Portrait Class: Week 18

I feel I need to continue to improve my drawing, so John provided us with some drawing exercises.

First Exercise:

A series of short block-ins using the side of fat charcoal and straight lines-

Second Exercise:

A longer pose with graphite using sweeping curves to find lines-

Third Exercise:

A rather short pose without picking the graphite off the paper-

Portrait Class: Week 17

A bit of a struggle with proportions.  I do like the tones, though.  Back to drawing to improve skills....

Portrait Class: Week 16

2 studies.  Red gel and warm, direct light:

Study 1 (5 minutes):

Study 2:

Portrait Class: Week 15

More gels over lights:

Portrait Class: Week 14

More gels over lights: