MORE FACES

 France said she likes drawing men with wrinkles and beards but we finally got a female (pretty) model to use.  

I am doing one or two a day so these are all from the past few weeks…

MORE PORTRAITS IN THE DRAWING WITH FRANCE COURSE

 I will mostly do these on white sketch paper but sometimes I’ll go into my Strathmore toned (tan or grey) paper sketchbook…and mostly with graphite but sometimes I’ll want to add something else (a bit of charcoal pencil, etc.?)

SO MANY PORTRAITS - HOW ELSE CAN I GET BETTER?

After the Sketchy 30Days/30Faces Course was over, I finished those…and then began another through a Sktchy.com instructor, France Van Stone.  All portraits in graphite, Procreate drawing (which I will skip) and pen (uh, maybe?).  It was on sale for 1/2 off and I was thinking about it after seeing her on YouTube and liking her style…so here we are - I don’t know how many portraits there will be but it’s a lot!

And I swear to myself - and you - that I will not trace anything but learn to measure, check, recheck and draw without using tracing…just take it as it comes.

And, you know what?  So far, I am pleased.  The trick = slowly looking, measuring and checking the measuring over and over and not being worried about having to erase and start again…