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Yıl 2022

A wip update on my drawing of Stanley Tucci. Inspired by the photography of Luis Salazar (@ilustreets) the idea was to use this double exposure technique to combine this portrait of Stanley with a photo I took In Florence, Italy.

My family is a big fan of his shows "Searching for Italy" and "Tucci in Italy" so I wanted to do this tribute!

I have a Skool page. If you're intrested in drawing and calligraphy I can help you here:

skool.com/face-drawing-calligraphy-4074

Hi! I'm trying to do a graphite portrait of my grandparents' wedding picture. I've done two preliminary sketches of my grandfather (I posted the better of the two) and it's nothing like him, but I can't define to myself exactly why. I mean, I'm not the best artist in the world, but usually when I draw someone from a photo reference they're at least roughly recognizable! If I could get another pair of eyes to tell me what proportions or features are off or what details would make it more like him, I would REALLY appreciate it! Thanks so much!

Long time lurker, first time poster!

“Not AI” oil, gold leaf & usb port on panel, 24x30”
Gold leaf is so tricky to photograph! Second photo is just to show the gold leaf in different lighting.

This is part of a series about the seductive nature of technology acceleration & the need for resistance. It’s been on my mind since pandemic times & shapes my work (esp with so much of my life being by facilitated by tech lol)

Yup, it’s a usb port I found on the sidewalk affixed with a magnet to the surface of the painting.

Took a picture of them on my couch and upgraded it so they'd be fancy. Ties make everyone fancy.

Since my last post was downvoted to oblivion, with people assuming my work was AI.

I thought I’d share one of my older portrait painting process videos with you.

Hope you enjoy it!

I gotta start up again

HB pencil on regular office paper. Only the hair took over 4 hours

I mainly wanted to improve at value grouping with this and constructing the head.
Looking at it now, the nose doesn’t look quite right but for a short exersice I am quite pleased overall.
Mainly I don’t like how messy it feels compared to people who are more skilled than myself.
I tried to map out the shadow side and then darken the darkest shadows with a few soft and hard edges. I am unsure where the main areas for improvement are however because it just doesn’t look very good in my opinion.
Maybe I am being too harsh but I would be very appreciative of where I should aim to improve next time.
Thanks in advance.

@mad.moustache

#charcoaldrawing #charcoal #charcoalart #drawings #charcoalsketch

78/10,000

I’m noticing the pages where everything clicked and the ones where I was just chasing it. The faces that landed are the ones I didn’t second-guess.