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06-19-2008, 09:11 PM
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Michael, I also want to thank you for posting your drawings. They have so much energy and honesty.
I really like all the suggestions, and I thought of another one: you could try first sketching very, very lightly with a few basic lines and some dots to indicate the features and edges until you are satisfied with the shape and placement of everything. Then try to suggest everything including the eyes, mouth, ears, etc,. with shading, no lines. Just continue to work on refining the drawing without lines, though making accents with a dark pencil is okay. See how close a likeness you can get without lines. It's really fun and liberating.
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06-19-2008, 11:06 PM
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Dear Enzie,
I will be happy to do so, I just need to deal with converrting my power point images to the forum sizes etc.
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06-20-2008, 11:36 AM
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Chris, that would be wonderful and extremely generous of you!
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06-25-2008, 12:09 PM
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A handsome young man showed up in a white linen suit and a fedora and looked for everything like a 1950s G Man.
Focused my time on the drawing and placement of features as people have suggested, then brought it up in value very slowly so as to not loose my placements. Also gave attention to the body and head sizes.
I took my time with this and am pleased with the results. 
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06-25-2008, 05:17 PM
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Michael,
this is so much better than the last one, one can really feel the three dimensionality in the head.
One thing that might improve this fine portrait could be to develop some softer edges in the shadow areas and also and have less contrast within shadow areas.
Keep up the good work.
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06-26-2008, 11:58 AM
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Hello Allan and thanks for your thoughtful comments and advice.
I got a book last night that was recommended to me by both Linda Brandon and someone over on the Cennini forum - it is "The Artists Complete Guide to Drawing the Head" by William Maughan.
It looks like a wonderful method guide for drawing from life and I intend to devour it and apply it to my works at OS to see if I can further improve.
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07-01-2008, 11:41 PM
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Nicole was our model in open studio tonight. I am pretty happy with this one, getting a better handle on proportions and dropping the lines and doing value-based rendering of the form. Done on Strathmore Velvet Gray paper in sanguine.
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