Thursday's effort is based on a painting titled 'Portrait of an Elderly Man' by Francesco Bonsignori dated 1487.
The drawing was done with mechanical pencil (HB lead), Muji black pen to fill in the pupils, and Japanese watercolors for the background and garment coloring (black and red, respectively).
The original painting is very dark and I wasn't able to see a distinctive hat on the subject's head though there apparently is one due to the way the hair is in the image. So the background in this practice piece (that includes the area for a hat) has been painted black. I'd prefer the black to be darker so the face stands out better, but I'm going to leave this one as is.
This 3/4 view of the face was interesting to do, since the neck has several folds due to the man's weight and age, and there are some prominent wrinkles, a dimple, and a face indentation to include.
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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