Pretty Face Sketches by Ted Kuik

Attempts to Render Pretty Feminine Faces in Graphite Pencil and other Artistic Media with Frequent Digital Editing


 
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thumbnail image:  face sketch #332Thursday November 27, 2008

Sketch #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.

thumbnail image:  face sketch #331Saturday November 22, 2008

Sketch #331

I exercised more restraint in the digital editing stage with this one than I typically have lately. She's mostly the original graphite.

thumbnail image:  face sketch #330Wednesday November 19, 2008

Sketch #330

Well, once again, I find myself posting a sketch far later than I intended to. Anyway, here she is.

thumbnail image:  face sketch #329Thursday October 23, 2008

Sketch #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 :)

thumbnail image:  face sketch #328Tuesday September 23, 2008

Sketch #328

This is another digitally enhanced graphite sketch, somewhat similar in style to #326 but with some significant differences as well.

thumbnail image:  face sketch #327Friday September 19, 2008

Sketch #327

Here's a little virtual collage I made combining a portrait with an abstract.

thumbnail image:  face sketch #326Wednesday September 3, 2008

Sketch #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.

thumbnail image:  face sketch #325Monday September 1, 2008

Sketch #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.

thumbnail image:  face sketch #324Wednesday August 27, 2008

Sketch #324

Ok, with this one I return to the graphite pencil medium, albeit with a lot of digital editing.

thumbnail image:  face sketch #323Monday August 25, 2008

Sketch #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.

thumbnail image:  face sketch #322Thursday, July 31, 2008

Sketch #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 :)

thumbnail image:  face sketch #321Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Sketch #321 (#315 revisited)

I thought I would try another digital makeover, this time of sketch #315 from back in June.

thumbnail image:  face sketch #320Friday, July 18, 2008

Sketch #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.

thumbnail image:  face sketch #319Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Sketch #319

Ok, here's one with relatively more graphite and less digital editing than the one most of those I've been posting lately.

thumbnail image:  face sketch #318Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Sketch #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.


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