Portraits 51-53/120 from this morning. Only a few more pages left in my sketchbook!
Portraits 51-53/120 from this morning. Only a few more pages left in my sketchbook!
Portrait 50! Just 70 to go.
Portraits 48 and 49/120. Sort of starting a mini series of people reading
Portraits 46 & 47/120 this morning. I do actually miss reading newspapers
Portrait 45/120. Another (slightly better) attempt at painting Simone de Beauvoir
Portrait 44/120. Tried to paint Simone de Beauvoir but failed horribly
Portrait 43/120: I got a watercolour hue called “Aussie red gold” that I’m really starting to love
Portrait 42/120: I appear to be stuck on the cool side of the palette. Probably need to find images with harsher light
Portrait 41/120. A purple grumpus
Portrait 40/120. A third done! Trying to get a bit looser
Late today. Portrait number 39: back to monochrome-ish. Trying to figure out a good complementary to purple for highlights
Portrait number 38! Trying to ramp up the harsh light. Need better strategies for handling finer details in eyes and lips 🤔
Portrait number 37. Screwed up the hair shape a little but can see improvement in lifting out highlights. The trick is using toilet paper rather than (coarser) kitchen paper :)
Portrait # 36. Had to make up for the horror show this morning. Starting to get a bit more used to lifting out highlights as I go
Running really late so a bit of a cop out with this morning’s portrait. Ghoulish skin, sausage fingers and cauliflowers everywhere. This is number 35
Portrait #34. Screwed this one up by going over with fountain pen lines 🤔
Portrait #33. Not too happy with it. Been trying to figure out how to blend layers better so I don’t get such hard lines. This paper isn’t the best for moving paint around, but also I can’t quite figure out the timing 🤔
Todays portrait. Number 32. Another attempt at painting Minoli
This mornings portrait! Number 31. Trying to see if I can experiment more with warm and cool colours to add value range
Portrait number 30! That’s one sketchbook half filled with portraits. Hopefully the next one won’t be so easy to cauliflower
Almost caught up! Portraits 28 and 29. These two didn’t really work. I’m still trying to figure out highlights/range of values with darker skin
Portrait number 27! Wasn’t patient enough to wait for it to properly dry between layers
Still trying to use up some of the colours in my palette! Portraits 25 and 26
Portrait 24! Probably the most convincing shading to create volume, so far. Although I went a bit too far on the neck
Portraits 22 and 23. Still unsure how to handle closed eyes