Week 11: Portraiture

A 25 minute conté crayon portrait drawing. This was focused on getting correct facial anatomy and likeness. The facial anatomy in this image is helped by the way the marks are made, creating weight and depth, and showing the curvature of the face, through following this curvature with the marks. This is equally effective in the representation of the hair, which is not highly detailed but suggests enough that the viewer can understand what it is simply through the marks.

The anatomy itself is accurate, with the eyes a third of the way down the face, the nose another third down, and the ears aligned to the bottom of the nose. This shows that the image has been planned and measured beforehand. There are also changes visible, as the bottom of the chin can be seen to have moved up. However this is not too obvious as the dark outlines of the face draw the attention back to the face itself.

There is also a good contrast in the tonal values of the dark and light areas, specifically the two sides of the face, where the further one is barely visible and just suggested in the shade.