Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Grandpa (with charcoal sticks)

2 comments:

  1. He looks a bit like you... this tends to happen when one does a lot of self-portraits.... Nice shading, and there is just something cool about the way the head disappears into the paper, and the way you handled the edge of the right side of his face against the background is really excellent.

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  2. thank you! :D we actually do look quite a bit alike, the same tiny lips. i liked working with the shading in this photo because what my mind wanted to be darker was lighter and vice versa. for example, his white hair is lighter than his skin, but my brain wanted to make it darker because that's how i typically see hair, i guess. but it was very interesting to shade what i actually saw. And use the eraser for most of it.

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