portraits, portraits

hey there,

ok this time it is all about portraits :)

spending more time on honeing my skills and accuracy with drawing from life and studying the great and contemporary masters, still a bit wonky here hehe. but only practice makes perfect, draw draw draw...

here is a portrait from life, a friend and fellow student was so graciously nice to sit for me and we did this 30min study :) below is a photo of her with the portrait alongside.



then there is some Anthony Ryder study, from his "Figure Drawing" - book.
first is a sketch to work on the construction, it´s woobly I admit hehe, then there is a progress-shot of the final study I just started.





and last but not least, another Ryder study I did in class, pencil on paper.