This zoo-theme made me think of the time earlier in the Autumn when I was hired as a court artist. It's fairly rare in Finland - artists are hired only for the most interesting (for the media) cases. So I had to get the fastest possible technique together over the weekend. This is one of those tests. I used my favourite paper - Fabriano colore - a red conte crayon and a black wax crayon. In this test I also used a blue colour pencil for colour contrast and a brush pen to add detail. It's scary how fast you can come up with a decent likeness with this technique! I think this took about 10 minutes.
3 comments:
I'm a big fan of rapid portrait studies and this one is wonderful. I would love to see more.
WOWWWWWW How the HECK do you do something like that in so little time! INSANE! Very good! I want to try now :)
It was 10 minutes only because I know the subject so well. I've drawn her dozens of times so I didn't have to spend time on molding. One of those times when everything just clicks.
Also, in the actual courtroom I used 20 to 30 minutes on each one. Can't post those for another 4 months but after that they'll probably show up on my blog.
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