All three of my art Zoom sessions are based in the Northern Hemisphere, and with them going into Daylight savings and us coming out of it, after Easter Monday-night-NZ-time face Zoom is the only one I can attend without much effort. (Although the early-Friday-NZ-time host is considering an NZ-daytime session during their summer.) Also, Suter sold my last scarf in stock, so really, I should get busy on the loom.
With all that in mind, concentrating on a focal point, and stop meddling once I've "finished" are the new rules; when I get the urge to meddle, starting a second drawing helps. And to do that, focusing on an attractive feature helps to speed up the drawing.
I ran out of silver gel ink, but it was satisfyingly finished. Then I went in with paint to add the light parts, and now she looks like she switched on the blender without the lid.
A super quick, not-accurate drawing, and yet it the model looked exactly like this.
This was an amazing model/pose; his right arm was far forward and close to his camera, presenting a fascinating foreshortening. And he had a lovely hairdo. I could have drawn him for hours.
The lovely Monday night host; I think the hair worked.
The green paint was working fine, and I was finished, and I liked it. Then I started drawing the shirt in blue, and the shape/size/placement was all wrong. A hard lesson in, "Stop meddling!"
Happy with these; some details, some room left to imagination. Fewer lines would have been even better. Lack of likeness doesn't worry me.
The drawing on the right is another example of my favourite models/poses not coming out well. Darn, darn, darn.
For both women, I focused on the hair. They didn't look alike, but the drawings came out similarly. I'm fine with that.
Friday morning NZ-time host with lilting Glaswegian accent; in the second try, I didn't have time for the head/hair or chin but to me this looks exactly like her.
I started with the orange version, and ran out of fountain pen ink, so I moved on to the green with a ballpoint pen I just rediscovered. Brave of me; lucky it worked. Another of my fav model/pose.
The more I get used to some of my new ways of drawing, I started to experience interesting new problems.
See
the "stabby" dots and "invisible" lines? The felt tip dug into the paper and didn't dance on the surface. I had to peek many times with this one to see what I was getting down and what wasn't showing. There's nothing on the other side; it's all on this side of the paper. Inexpensive black paper being hard to find, I'm experimenting with
black gesso. Gel pens work wonderfully, but paint, watercolour
or gouache, certain colors work and others don't.
Gel
pens, felt tips, and other modern pens are convenient and colorful, but
for the amount of drawing you get, there is so much plastic waste. I
experimented with a second refillable fountain pen. When held at the top
end, these cannot be used at 90 degrees, but must be used at a slight angle, closer yo how you hold them in the normal way. It's a balance act.
Drawings from the first half on March.
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