These dogs have such wonderful wrinkles, luscious almost, like a rose in furry form. Since my sketching group has a side project of filling a small drawing book with animals, I thought I’d try a Sharpei. This is not a live sketch since I don’t know any actual Sharpei, so I drew this from a photo. 
I don’t know if it’s the paper, but the pencils seemed especially unwieldy tonight, and the difference between the 4H and the 2H was more dramatic than usual. Maybe it’s because of the moisture (it’s raining) in the air.
“I am too old to die young, and too young to grow up.” — He said this a week before he died. I thought he was a great complement to Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein, a fun movie. This was made using 5 pencils, here’s the progression: http://youtu.be/g5JvmYP4kec
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Marty Feldman, actor
The medium was way too small for such a challenging face, at 5×7 inches, and the actual sketch ended up 3.5 x 4 inches. I’d better keep my pencils sharp next time! Buffy Sainte-Marie, probably in the last 7 years…
I am hoping to get going on this project of drawing faces again. This was a 2-hour sketch, and is from an old photo of Grace Slick.
I started this as a joke, wanting to make it into an updated Carmen-Miranda sort of thing, with glass gooseberries scattered around like jewels, but this is as far as I got…
I was going to keep going with this until it was fully shaded, but I liked the paleness of it, which may not come accross too well on a computer screen, but the way it almost seems to resolve out of the paper. I like how you have to actually work at it a little, it doesn’t just push it’s way into your view. So, I think it’s finished. I might add a little more to his hair.
If so, how can you stand to take a shower?
I just don’t get it.
Maybe I’m stupid.
This was an experiment, pencil-drawing on gessoed paper, varnished. That gives it the texture, if you can notice that.
On the cover of an old book of his short plays there was a great photo of the author, Samuel Beckett, as an older man. He had an acute, almost pained look. I didn’t quite capture it, and the drawing is small, but it was fun trying. I extended his hair at the top, he didn’t really have that tall of a coiff! (sp)
The iPad is fun, but it’s still a lot easier to get good detail with pencils, maybe later I’ll get better at it. The cap will have to remain unfinished…on to the next one!
I don’t know if it’s the paper, but the pencils seemed especially unwieldy tonight, and the difference between the 4H and the 2H was more dramatic than usual. Maybe it’s because of the moisture (it’s raining) in the air.
