This drawing of a face was created with watercolor, pen, ink, markers, and crayon.
I knew I wanted some big eyes as I sat down to draw another face. I was feeling colorfully muted today, and it came across in the character study.
Here is a detail from the drawing.
After sketching in some lines and blocking in some color, I started with some bold blue eyes. I built up some patterns and layers around the face, and eventually went back to the eyes with some more color. Various sections of the painting took a few washes of water for shading, and to dull the edges of the squiggly red lines.
Related posts:
19 responses so far ↓
1 nat // Sep 6, 2007 at 9:57 am
i love this! its awesome! i think that its really individual!!love to see more!!!
2 MDE-ART.com // Sep 6, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Hi Nat, Thank you for the kind comment. I appreciate it very much and will hopefully post more some day.
3 Shannon Leport // Oct 5, 2007 at 4:29 am
omg this is amazing
i am in my art lesson at school
and i am looking for images to do criticle studies of, i am deffiatly using this!
good work!!
i cant wait till i can produce work like that! x
4 Shannon Leport // Oct 5, 2007 at 4:30 am
Sorry… ‘omg’ means Oh My God
sorry its msn talk!
5 MDE-ART.com // Oct 5, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Thank you for the complimentary words Shannon, I appreciate it. Good luck with your art and lessons.
6 Tom Brewin // Oct 18, 2007 at 2:19 pm
this picture is absolutely awesome!!
i really like it,
im researching portraits in my art lessons and i am definetly using this!
Ill be trying to do it myself but it will be no way near as good as yours
This has got to be the best abstract portrait i have seen in my life…
keep it up
7 MDE-ART.com // Oct 19, 2007 at 1:21 am
Hi Tom, thank you for the encouraging comments, you are very kind. I am glad you found the portrait inspiring, and wish you good luck in your research and artistic pursuits.
8 Margarette // Nov 7, 2007 at 5:18 am
Very bEautiful
9 MDE-ART.com // Nov 7, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Thank you Margarette.
10 Sarawwh // Nov 9, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Omg this is really good.
Like all the different types of media used. its well good.
Im gunna like try recreate it myself, but it will nowhere near as good :]
11 MDE-ART.com // Nov 10, 2007 at 10:16 am
Hi Sarawwh, thank you for the comment. Good luck with your artistic pursuits!
12 Tom Brewin // Nov 11, 2007 at 12:06 pm
as i did promise….
this is my attempt
although compared with yours it is quite pathetic, but i am rather proud of it, also being my first attempt and only having on paintbrush to do it in.
i hope you like it =)
13 Tom Brewin // Nov 11, 2007 at 12:08 pm
hmm… the html didn’t seem to work so here a direct link:
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m285/mrbrewery/DSCF5837-1.jpg
14 MDE-ART.com // Nov 11, 2007 at 4:50 pm
Hi Tom, your painting is fantastic. I see deep emotion in the face, and the eyes are really stunning. Your brush work is wonderful too, very loose and energetic. I hope you enjoyed experimenting with the style.
15 Tom Brewin // Nov 13, 2007 at 3:50 pm
thank you for the comments michael, they were very inspiring.
I will more than likely try this portrait again, but next time i’ll make sure i have different sizes of brushes and more paint =)
16 Sam O. // Dec 7, 2007 at 9:50 am
OMG, as an artist that mainly stays with ink, pen, ink and watercolor, this is amazing!! Youve actually really inspired me. Im going to try and mimick this style, its really amazing!!!
17 MDE-ART.com // Dec 8, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Thank you for your inspirational comment Sam O. Good luck with your artistic endeavors!
18 carla // Jan 4, 2008 at 12:49 pm
the deep blue was a great color to choose, and so was the yellow sarrounding the blue, and the randome splashes of red, they really bring out the expretion in the persons face!!!!
19 MDE-ART.com // Jan 6, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Hi carla, thank you for your kind and insightful comment!
Leave a Comment
No links allowed within Comment field.