I was watching Who Do You Think You Are? the other day -a programme that traces the family histories of certain celebrities - and was very taken with Zoe Wanamaker's glasses! In fact she must have had about 4 different pairs on throughout the programme, all of which I would love to have, and not just her glasses, I was coveting some of her clothes as well! This black and white spotted pair were my favourite, teamed with a lovely red cardi (I live in cardis!) so I knew I had to draw them.
How to make those white spots really stand out? Of course, that lovely brown paper sketchpad I keep meaning to use. I don't know why I don't use it because it's so much fun and especially using white pencil for highlights. It makes doing hair a lot easier, especially for this very tousled look of Zoe's. It's probably the only technique I don't think too much about beforehand- I just throw in a bit of this and a bit of that and see what happens. I think there may be a few more in the near future!
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This is very beautiful!Yes, more brown paper drawings.
I'd love to figure out how you do draw people from tv... Do you have Divo where you can freeze the image? The images move and change too quickly for me. I guess it's all about keeping images in your memory, huh? Well, very nice!
You have to pause to get this much detail down surely Felicity? This is wonderful, I recognised her immediately!
OHMYGOD!! this is just STUNNING Felicity!!!!! Wow!! This really grabbed me. I love working on that brown paper also. Stunning.
Thanks everyone!
Yes, of course, I use pause for all the colour sketches - I have the memory of a goldfish! ;) I recorded this programme so I pause and have a whole tin of colour pencils in front of me. Once I do the pencil sketch I found that with the brown paper it's actually quicker to get down some details like the hair. The skin was very quick also, using a Light Flesh Lyra pencil and red and purple on the left side.
You are SO good at this---no one is better. You manage to avoid the wonkiness (eyes being on different planes, lopsided heads---you know what I'm talking about) that many people get when they draw from photos. Furthermore, you seem really to *get* your subject' character and personality. Amazing.
Wow, she really POPS on that paper! You put so much life into your portraits - I love them!
Thanks Laura! Oh, if only it came naturally - I constantly fret and work on the eyes and still it's hard work! It's probably why I do so many profiles!!
Thanks R.E.! It was you that inspired me - do you recognise the sketchbook? Took me a while but it finally clicked, I'm loving the paper!
Isn't it fun? You certainly do it justice!! :D
that really is terrific. I always think your drawings are great, but this one I had to come over (I sub through bloglines) & say so.
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