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 Thursday
November 27, 2008Sketch #332 I believe that several studies have shown that people tend to regard faces with a lot of symmetry as more attractive than those with less of it. For this sketch I took half of the one in the preceding post and reversed it to form the other half (thus achieving perfect symmetry). This technique fails miserably with a lot of sketches. It's easy to end up with a "cross eyed" result or its opposite, for instance, if the eyes are not oriented right. Even in the case of the drawing in this post (which think is at least somewhat well-suited to the technique), the young lady seems to suffer from a bit of a "fish-eye lens" and an overly thin neck, but I think she turned out better than the one in my 3/11/2006 sketch on this page. |
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 Saturday
November 22, 2008Sketch #331 I exercised more restraint in the digital editing stage with this one than I typically have lately. She's mostly the original graphite. |
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 Wednesday
November 19, 2008Sketch #330 Well, once again, I find myself posting a sketch far later than I intended to. Anyway, here she is. |
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 Thursday
October 23, 2008Sketch #329 Yikes, a month's gone by since my last post. Well, anyway, here's my latest graphite/computer hybrid. It wasn't too hard to get back into sketching. I'm glad I didn't wait any longer :) |
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 Tuesday
September 23, 2008Sketch #328 This is another digitally enhanced graphite sketch, somewhat similar in style to #326 but with some significant differences as well. |
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 Friday
September 19, 2008Sketch #327 Here's a little virtual collage I made combining a portrait with an abstract. |
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 Wednesday
September 3, 2008Sketch #326 As usual, this one involved considerable redrawing once the sketch was scanned into the computer. It's going easier, however, now that I am somewhat "back in practice", having drawn a little more frequently of late. |
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 Monday
September 1, 2008Sketch #325 Once again I used the combination of an original graphite sketch and a lot of digital editing to produce the result at right. I did a lot of light/shadow experimentation on the computer. |
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 Wednesday
August 27, 2008Sketch #324 Ok, with this one I return to the graphite pencil medium, albeit with a lot of digital editing. |
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 Monday
August 25, 2008Sketch #323: Totally Digital Again Having been preoccupied with an unrelated project for the past few weeks, I neglected my sketching rather badly. Anyway, the other project is done, and I'm trying to get back to sketching more frequently. Here's a digital one. I hope to come up with something in graphite that's post-worth soon. |
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 Thursday, July 31, 2008Sketch #322: Totally Digital This one was done entirely on the computer. There are pros and cons to doing it that way. On the one hand, it's nice to have unlimited undo capacity and to be able to average two intermediate versions together to get just the tone I want. On the other hand, a graphite pencil has much better resolution than the computer screen :) |
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 Tuesday, July 22, 2008Sketch #321 (#315 revisited) I thought I would try another digital makeover, this time of sketch #315 from back in June. |
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 Friday, July 18, 2008Sketch #320 (#319 revisited) I made some more (digital) modifications to the sketch posted Wednesday, perhaps the most significantly of which was re-drawing the eyes. |
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 Wednesday, July 16, 2008Sketch #319 Ok, here's one with relatively more graphite and less digital editing than the one most of those I've been posting lately. |
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 Wednesday, July 9, 2008Sketch #318 I redrew the sketch on which the previous two posts were based then did some more digital editing, so I guess that makes this one a cousin to the other two. If you'd like, you can see the what the redrawing looked like before I went all digital on it here. |
