We had our critique on Monday on our three portrait drawings. Although I had pretty much finished the portraits in class during the three hours a day we could spend on them, I did come to class about 30mns early to do some touch up details and view them all together next to each other on the wall.
Once we started the critique, some of the same comments came up over and over again. Some people had trouble with the hair, almost everyone had trouble with proportions of the features of the face at some point, and some parts of peoples’ drawings were flattened out with either a straight line, or no shading/suggestion of light and space. The drawings I liked the most were the ones that were unique, compositionally sound, and had a lot of movement in their marks. I felt that those drawings, even if some proportions were off, looked more like completed resolved art and were the most interesting to look at.
I think my critique went fairly well, and I think people could tell I was proud of these drawings. The one I had the hardest time on was the right drawing in the image above, because the angle was so strange! But to combat this, I used the box/cube technique and mapped out the shape and angle of the skull within this box before turning it into an actual face, which I think really helped me. However, because I was working on this one drawing for so long (this one took me the longest), I think out of the three it seems the least finished.
With all three of these drawings I started out with vine charcoal first to map everything out lightly, and then drew back in with conté crayon to up the contrast and dimensionality, and improve my line quality. Some of the things I heard in critique were: the delicacy of the lines in the hair was really nice, the sharp contrast looked good to create dimensionality, the forms seemed to be rendered accurately, the chin on the middle drawing seems a little disproportionate, and in the most right drawing the pillows behind the figure seem off/unfinished.
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