While riding the train back from Souzho to Nanjing in China a couple weeks ago I pulled out my sketchbook to draw. I asked Chas and Kirsten to name a facial feature that is less common. Chas said cheek bones. I did one drawing to emphasize the cheek bones, but I didn't like it. Then I drew this guy. I consider him an African. Really fun drawing him and shading him with marker.
Kirsten said nostrils. Again I drew one and i didn't like it. After I got back I still wanted to do one that emphasized the nostrils and I did this. I shaded him with pencil to see how good I could do and I'm really happy with it. I've been working with and learning a lot about shadows recently in my figure drawing class and I see the improvement here.
I need to stop drawing so close to the edge. Well the first one wasn't close to the edge when I started I just kept expanding the drawing until it got there, but the second one was too close. Oh well, they're just sketches.
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Reminds me of the big nose on "Double Dare" where the kids had to dig into the nose to find flags in the obstacle course.
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