Monday's effort was the drawing of a woodcut created by Melchior Lorck titled "Portrait of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent" dated 1559. The reference photo is included with this post. It is different than those I normally choose, but I like it.
Most of this piece was done with mechanical pencil (HB lead) and black Muji pen. Additional tools used include a White Signo Pen to highlight the pupils and grey watercolor for the shirt.
What I like about both images is how the different kinds of line work complement one another in distinguishing the different areas of the image, including the background.
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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