Wednesday's effort is based on a painting by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson's 'Portrait of Jacques-Joseph de Cathelineau' dated 1822.
I chose this piece to work from mainly to see if I could draw the eyes so a sense of roundness to the eyeball comes through, since the glance of the subject is to his upper right and the face is at the 3/4 position. I'm satisfied with them knowing that with more practice -- drawing this particular glance and position will only improve. The drawing was done with mechanical pencil (HB lead) and a Signo White Pen was used for the pupil highlights. The face is actually shorter in length than the one in the painting. But as I said, I was more interested in the eye work on this one.
What I particularly enjoyed was coloring in the garment with my Japanese watercolors. I loved the ensemble the subject was painted in, and the color choices I made work well.
For fun, I've drawn one of my own photos (yes, I was dressed in a clown outfit) and added a wild and crazy background to accompany it for today's practice effort. As part of sketching the piece, it was split into four sections with two opposing diagonal lines. In terms of color choices, I've worked with color gradations for some shape sections. Can you believe, there are five major shapes in this effort? There really are -- circles, squares, trapezoids, triangles and spirals. I think the substrate is Biengfang Watercolor Paper (140 lb.). The materials used were Ohuhu markers, Micron 01 pigment ink pen, some red Stickles glitter glue for the nose, and a white Posca pen (for white dots on the face and to highlight eyes) and a yellow one (for yellow dots in the center of the flowers on the hat). There was no intention in working on this piece other than to have fun...and based on how it looks, I'd say well done!. One thing I learned is that blending with the Ohuhus i
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