April 16, 2010

Portriat Party

Well it is an attempt, I do not do faces - therefore I cannot do faces - so I just try more faces!! Especially mouths!!! they freak me out ???- and I totally messed up Lovely Jennifer's mouth - open mouths are the hardest of All!!! So hopefully I will see improvement some day.

5 comments:

Teri said...

I hear you on faces and I keep trying also.
Yours look good!

Sandra said...

I really struggle with faces too. I need to practice but instead I find my self avoiding them altogether! I find Willow Charcoal a great medium to use for faces as you can move the pigment around and lift out, add more, it's so forgiving! I know you love colour, and these are really great sketches - bhut if you want to practice faces, willow charcoal is a great one to use.

winna jill said...

These are excellent faces full of life and stories...I love them--

however if you need a little help in your mind at least--then view your work in a mirror---you'll see it with teaching eyes


Winna Jill

Timaree said...

Not seeing the pictures or people you drew I would say you made some great portraits. These have character and look "real". I've seen many that end up looking like plastic dolls.

Mari Brown and Colourblob said...

Faces are hard and the mouth, I so hear you on that one... I just made a drawing of Edith Prickly and she has always a wide open mouth... that was hard. I think its the teeth that makes it harder to draw. One of the tools I love to use to see different face expressions is my web camera, its just smile, scream, look crazy and snap! you have a good picture to go by... unless you are camera shy : ) I think you did a great job on the faces, dont give up!!!