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The main event last Wednesday night (May 3) was portraits, though the wonderful weather tempted a few members onto the roof for a wee sketching session.
Angus ran through the basics at the start of the lesson:
- draw an upturned egg shape for the head;
- eyes to go halfway down, with each eye taking up a fifth of the width and being spaced one eye-width apart;
- end of the nose halfway between eyes and chin;
- mouth halfway between nose and chin.
The brave grabbed a mirror and attempted self-portraits, while others used photographs of faces to have go. You can see the some of results below.
Ally adding detail to her self-portrait.
Drawing portraits from photographs
Practice sketches
Rona’s portrait of Sir Stanley Spencer’s self-portrait
Liz’s self-portrait
Mary drawing a portrait
This week (Wednesday May 10) there’ll be more portrait work, with some drawing exercises designed to improve our sketching.
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