Portrait Drawing and Painting the Head in Ink and Paint

drawing the head

Glenn Hirsch, Instructor

QUALITY OF LINE

VINCENT BEFORE AND AFTER

Rico LeBrun

Rico Lebrun

Jerry Shawback

Obie Bowman

Obie Bowman

Obie Bowman

Obie Bowman

Obie Bowman

Obie Bowman

Guilherme Kramer

Obie Bowman

Obie Bowman

Obie Bowman

Obie Bowman

Obie Bowman

Obie Bowman

Obie Bowman

Alan K

DRAWING THE HEAD

• Kathe Kollwitz – notice how the line on the left cheek disappears?

Lucian Freud

Otto Dix, 1911

Rodin

Giorgio de Chirico

Renoir

Raphael

SKIN COLOR

• Skin color depends on light

• Skin color depends on genes

• Skin color depends on a great variety of browns and pinks

• Skin color also depends on the color green in the shadows

• Skin is greasy, so skin also reflects the colors around it

• Can you see the green in the skin?

• Can you see the green in the forehead?

• Skin color also depends on the imagination

Alexi Jawlensky