faces

I’ve been going to figure drawing group for a while now, but somehow I’ve mostly avoided drawing faces with any actual detail.

Ok, not somehow. It was intentional. lol They’re so hard! It’s way more fun to just focus on what I can draw best (anything but faces). A few weeks ago I decided to try zooming in and drawing only the face, though. Now they’re my official challenge and I’m actually excited to keep trying them!

Someone in the group mentioned the show Portrait Artist of the Year last week. Binged that. Pretty neat.

Below are my best attempts so far. Note the one with all the doodles. I’ve never doodled during these sessions. That’s how much my brain was trying to avoid drawing her face. Literal carrots instead. lol

I think part of my struggle is my love of lines. Shadow would be better to focus on, so next time I’m taking a lot of charcoal and soft pencils!