When you draw there's a lot of silent minutes - even hours - to think, reflect. When I draw, most of the time my mind is blank. All I'm registering is what I'm seeing; music helps set the mood but my mind can't hear the lyrics.
Cherry Gloss, Glass Gaze, Lead Collection, 2010.
This person, believe it all not is the same as the last. Very different, aye? But the two photos were strikingly different too; one was airbrushed and photo-shopped more.
There's a few things I've learned.
First of all scanning an image allows you to view the picture flat and face on. It makes the image look different as to when viewing an original - always slightly at an angle from the left, right, high, low. Even a photo would incorporate an angle of altitude.
A reproduction never quite matches the original; it's just missing something.
Drawings look good in bad lighting. Aids the illusion of making it look more real, more alive.
First comes form then comes tone. Rendering cannot save the wrong of an initial deformity.
And, practice helps.
Oh! I forgot...and drawing hair is such a bitch! Hair is such an important feature to a face (second to the eyes I believe); it frames the face; accentuates femininity or masculinity, but, boy is it such a tedious task.
