today we had another life drawing class in which we had to focus on drawing the head and face, we were given the task of recreating a face in the style of jenny saville. i selected the image that jenny saville created (shown below) to draw in the style of because i liked the effect that the reds and oranges gave.
to create my own piece first i used a pencil to draw out a rough angular shape of the face and its details. i then used acrylic paints and only my fingers to apply the paint to the page, this was a messy process and proved hard to get the paint in smaller places but was useful as it was easier to blend the colours together.
the face began to look more realistic as i began to use thicker layers of paint and bigger and bolder strokes, i found that using white and also a pale orange were really good for adding highlights to the face.
When it came to going the inside of the eyes i was a bit uncomfortable as i know that the eyes can effect your work dramaticaly if they do not match with your image for example if they were looking the wrong way. I resolved this by using a graphite stick and white paint and was very pleased with the outcome, i then showed the colours that i had used to create my image in swatches underneath my completed image.
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