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Jason
On this one I tried to be a little looser in the first stages, then tightening up on the rendering of the face. It's an issue that has bedeviled me for a long time. I am often too enamored of details, even unimportant details, so a lot of my drawings have an "over-rendered" look. I think a successful drawing has to achieve a balance between fine rendering and more expressive, probing mark-making. It's hard to achieve, and I don't think I've gotten very far with this one, but it is a step in the right direction for me. In the past, I would have spent a week rendering Jason's plaid shirt. whereas this one took me about 30 minutes, and I'm sure it looks much better this way.
Charcoal/white pastel on toned paper. Approx. 17" X 22."
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