Friday, October 10, 2008
Faces and Heads! Faces and Heads!
Doing so much life-drawing, figured I'd balance that out by going for some more comic style, cartoon head-face stuff. Well, origionally I was going to just draw hats, as you can see in the top-left here, but I decided that'd be too easy, and therefor boring, so changed that to faces and heads instead. For four pages.
Anyone else want to count them and see how many I did?
Well, I was having so much fun drawing comic style cartoon faces, it turns out I just turned the page and kept on going. Hit a sort of peak there where there were all these faces just dropping out of my pencil when I wasn't looking, plopping right down there on the page, I hardly even had to pay attention to it, faces just spewing out everywhere.
And the second page of faces fell out of the pencil so well, I kept right on going. Alternated between a soft 4b, and a 0.5mm mechanical pencil, for no particular reason, though the 4b was less finicky. I've always found mechanical pencils too sharp and narrow, though they can be convenient. I gotta do more faces in the future.
Turns out, first time doing concentrated face-drawing like this, it takes about four pages before I start to fade. They were still falling out of the pencil easily, but the 'holy crap, faces are coming outta my pencil' was starting to distract me. Decided to end it here rather than go on, at this point; the four pages in all took maybe an hour to get through.
Definately going to do this again.
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