27 October 2011

Art Journal: Portraits Like Wow

Here are the second installment of paintings in the daily painting challenge that I'm doing with my Nick and Rose.


I decided that I wanted to draw a portrait for this piece. I had a canvas with the splotches of pink from the previous day's piece, so I just drew right on top of that. I used a photograph I found online as my reference. I found the quote on a film noir website and thought it was perfect.

Since I did a portrait and liked it, I decided to try another one:




She is so odd, but I absolutely love her! I felt so inspired by this piece that I drew a bunch more! I love how each portrait takes on her (or his) own personality. I start with reference photographs, but they soon take on their own life. The last two were drawn just from my head, no reference photo. I love even the ones that aren't that great! Which ones do you like?









4 comments:

  1. they are all so different. which one is your fave? i've spent the day sketching images from the "lost things" video inspiration week 2 of class. how alice in wonderland fantastical that video is!

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  2. My fave is the fourth one up from the bottom. But I love all of them! :)

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  3. Looooooooooooove your portraits! They're so emotive!

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  4. They're all so strong, very thoughtful portraits. Out of them all the last one made me stop, she has a calm quality that spoke to me more.

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