Let's Face It 2022 - Tuesday's Work for Week 1

This is work from the first week's lesson with Lauren Rudolph--out of a full year of art classes as part of Let's Face It 2022 through the Kara Bullock Art School. Lauren taught the pre-class session on drawing an eye which was great, and she is extremely talented!

Rather than working through all of her videos in which the reference photo was hard to see (for values), I used the digital version of the reference photo to work from. There are differences between this drawing and the photo such that you probably wouldn't see them as related. Some of those differences include the nose being a bit too long at the base, lips are in a slight smile rather than a melancholy look, the darks aren't dark enough, etc. The piece below is reasonably good, but it just doesn't have the 'essence' of the young woman in the photo.

That said, I worked on a larger substrate than is normal for me and that meant blowing up the image size and trying to keep things in proportion on the fly. Plus, pencil isn't my typical art tool. So after a full day's work, I'm satisfied and calling this one done.

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