I had noticed when drawing the statues that I really struggled with the hands and feet so started the week by drawing my own hands. They are a handy (excuse the pun) subject to sketch in a spare five minutes because I always have them with me.
"you need Hands":
I did feel I made some progress with these drawings. I especially like the fluidity of line on the pen drawings on the first picture collage - these were done almost blind with just an occasional peek at the paper. This encouraged me to do more blind drawings.
On December 5th Nelson Mandela Died so I was inspired to draw a portrait based on a newspaper photo.
The pencil drawing was my first attempt. Although I do think there's something of a likeness there the drawing in general is unexciting. It looks stiff and inhibited (like the sort of drawing I dis as a self-conscious teenager). His neck is also much too thin so he resembles a lollipop. My immediate reaction to this was to need to loosen up by doing a blind drawing and a continuous line drawing to get that fluidity back. Neither of these are a good likeness to the subject but I like them better probably because I enjoyed the process of making them much more.
Knowing that in part 4 I will have to produce a self portrait also did a blind contour 'selfie'
I'd equate this more to a 'selfie' (self portraits generally taken with a mobile phone or similar for posting on social media) because of the rapidity of execution. However, the selfie is generally supposed to be flattering. This isn't a good likeness - my eyes are too close together, the mouth is too wide and I've given myself extra double chins. However, it does look like a reasonably proportioned face which is a start for such a rapid contour drawing.
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