Friday, September 23, 2011

Portraits




"Be very careful about eyes and nostrils, leave those for last," Rob said. Isn't that fascinating? Artists out there, aren't eyes and nostrils one of the things you tend to go for first, simply because they seem the darkest and most important? Rob pointed out that the way we recognize each other is through the shape of the cranium, not those tiny details. You can really see this in Rob's portrait demo at the bottom.

In the right corner of the center photo is a small demo Rob did, illustrating a point about line quality, on the corner of a student's work. The artist who created that drawing was 13 years old.

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