I've been experimenting lately with the style of cross-hatching that Andrea Joseph does on the images she posts at Flickr, and here on her blog. While Andrea uses mostly pencils for her work, I made a recent switch from mostly graphite sketching to ink; and that's the result of my listening to the Danny Gregory podcasts. (One might think I'm a man of little sense of self-direction in my art, and one would be right on!)Anyway, this is my first attempt to sketch a portrain using the cross hatching technique I've picked up from Andrea and the ink from Danny's influence. I think it turned out pretty good, the eyes are much better than I thought they would, the shadows around the mouth aren't much to get too excited about.
The lip color isn't right; but hey, it's red and that's all that really counts, right? I think she'll do.
micron pen, watercolor pencils, in watercolor moleskine
I'm glad that you're clobbering together ideas from others styles to create your own statement. Let the fun carry on!
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ReplyDeleteI think you did very well in your coss-hatching. It's not easy to do in ink as
it is in pencil.
Nice work.
Donn
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Great job on this one. She's come out pretty well. She has definite dimention.
ReplyDeleteVery good work Jim.
ReplyDeleteGreat use of shading and dramatic light. Nice work!
ReplyDeleteVery dramatic! I like!
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