A Drawing In Progress

Borg

Great pictures as always Zoobyshoe!

rhody

Zooby just spotted on the forum, unleash the dogpile... PM's encouraged, go fellow PF'ers, GO !!!

Rhody...

zoobyshoe

I recorded another drawing step by step, but including more of the initial linear stages.

The model is Ashley, a girl I met at a coffeehouse a while back:

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#2
Her face is actually much wider than it looks in the photo. It's sculpted by the shadow and that shadow blends into the darkness behind her, giving the impression of a narrower face than she actually has. I'm blocking in the actual shape even though it will later be as obscured by shadow as it is in the photo.


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#4
Here I've started shading. I shade from left to right because I'm right handed and there's less chance of smudging this way. Eventually I have to lay down a separate piece of paper over the drawing where I rest my arm because the whole thing will have been partly shaded.


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Big leap from last one to this one. I got into it and forgot to pause to record progress. With the background darkness added her face now looks as narrow as it does in the reference photo.


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Up close you see what reads as smooth tone from a distance is all actually tiny lines:


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Second eye shading started.


All the shading needs tuning up, but the face is basically there now. Still, the tuning up takes the most time. On the right I'm going to put "stuff": non-representational chatter whose main function is compositional, but which looks like it might mean something if you only understood it: http://physicsforums.com/showpost.ph...&postcount=366
(People like to rorschach their own meanings onto that sort of thing.)

(Comments are welcome, but notice it's a long post and you don't have to quote the whole thing.)

edward

That is looking great zoobyshoe. WOW that sure is a long post

Saladsamurai

Zooby: Awesome work. First thread I have ever subscribed to with the email notifications turned on. That's how great this thread is. I noticed awhile back that GeorginaS managed to get some prints from you. If one were interested, would one PM you about whether this is an option?

Thanks

Dembadon

Always love seeing your work, zoob. I'm always showing it off to anyone who'll appreciate it.

zoobyshoe

Thanks, edward! Yeah, it's long. Kind of a poor man's time lapse film.
Thanks much Salad! Really happy you think it's worth subscribing to!
Georgina didn't buy those prints from me. They're made and sold by "deviantART" which is a humongous website for amateur artists. I'm "zoobyshoe" there as well, so you can google my gallery there. (I don't think I can directly link without breaking a PF spamming rule, cause I do make a tiny profit for each one sold.) I upload them there as huge files, which could print out much larger than the actual original drawings, so you also have the option of downloading the big file from there, resizing however you like, and printing it out yourself if you have a good printer.
That's great to hear! Thanks much!

DaveC426913

Great work Zoob!

dlgoff

Nice Progress!

Gad

... *thinks of emailing a pic to Zshoe*

zoobyshoe

Thanks much, Dave!
Thanks!
Uh Oh! I don't have an opening till about 2042.

Gale

I know it's bad manners to revive an old thread, but I'm going to the MoMA today and I was checking out their website when this was the first thing I saw:



At first I thought maybe Zooby had gotten famous for his artwork, but I don't think it's his. Just strikingly similar, (and apparently famous). I actually like Zooby's work better, but I'm not exactly a connoisseur.

Velikovsky

Nice work.