This week our homework was to make 5 subtractive tone self portraits - 3 portraits and 2 whole body drawings.
As advised, I've tried playing with some facial expressions and got some very creepy results.
For the first drawing I've hung the light above me and went for rather neutral expression. I like the overall look of it, but I can also see that the eyes are uneven and a little too big, the nose is too narrow and the shadows around the eyes are too sharp.
Here I've had the light on my knees which made everything so much more difficult because it was moving constantly and changing the shadows. Also smiling like this for around 30 minutes is not easy either. I like this less than the first one, I feel like I could've done a much better job. It's not very proportional, one cheek is higher than the other, eyes are too big again and it all looks kind of poorly done.
My favourite part here is probably the mouth, though it is not placed correctly. My left eye is too low I think and at a wrong angle. I honestly hope I don't really look like this.
These two were a bit of a problem since I don't have a big mirror, but I've figured out how to make it work. This first one is me sitting on my bedside table. The hardest part was drawing my left hand because it kept moving as I was drawing with it and so the shadows and negative spaces were always changing. I think this is maybe better than the portraits because I wasn't focusing on so many details.
This one has a lot more anatomical errors than the previous one in my opinion. Again, drawing my left arm was very difficult. But I think the shadow on my right leg turned out quite good.
I have some mixed feelings about this exercise. On one hand, these were actually a lot of fun to draw, on the other hand, the results are not all that good. I'm still not used to this way of drawing. My favourite ones are the first portrait and the sitting one. I definitely still have a lot of room for improvement.
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