Monday, December 29, 2014

first commission - beginning stages



the photograph, my utensils, and the canvas. all ready to go

my first portrait not completed at school. School encourages the use of projecting a traced outline to quickly get the properties, however i do consider this cheating. this is my first painting where i will be drawing the image from scratch, and have used this gridding technique

definitely finding it challenging - the photograph is slightly pixelated, the canvas won't allow for rubbing out with smudging and the face has taken on quite an old appearance. hopefully a clean layer of paint should sort out these issues, but the drawing needs some tweaking as well. 

close up of the gridding and smudging


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