April is the busiest month. I've got an art project due in a couple of weeks (one I haven't started!) and some trips, including one to France at the end of the month (yay!) and so this month of people drawings is going to be a trifle irregular. I will post 30 drawings, one for each April day, but they will probably come in clusters.
And---April is the people month. I'm going to do all sorts of drawings from the quickest of sketches to long studies. I'll be drawing from the live model but also from sculptures and paintings and drawings in museums or in art books. I'll be sketching in public, I'll be pressing my family and friends into service. I'll be studying, among other things, noses, mouths, hands, feet and eyes, as here:
It's going to be a wild time, I'm thinking. Hope you'll come along.
If you can't scroll down to see the whole page, you can see it in the 2006 People Sketches album, at left. You have to click on the thumbnail there.
what a nifty picture
Posted by: joe | April 05, 2006 at 06:12 PM
I love the eyes, especially the top set.
Posted by: Nina | April 04, 2006 at 12:24 PM
Do you know Rubens's studies of facial expressions? When he was young he sketched himself in a mirror making a wide variety of expressions to study how faces conveyed meaning and how those meanings could be conveyed in on paper.
Posted by: larry | April 03, 2006 at 10:52 PM
Thank you so very much, one and all. As I said earlier, this is going to be an odd month, with more irregular (and sketchier)postings than usual, due to a project I'm working on. The sooner I finish it, the smoother people month will be. Cross your fingers for me.
Posted by: Laura | April 03, 2006 at 08:58 PM
I can't wait to see more. These are tremendous.
Posted by: Dr. Research | April 03, 2006 at 05:53 PM
I can't wait for this new adventure!! I might even come along for the ride some of the way. and btw, better April shoudl be the "busiest" month and not the "cruelest" month!!;)
Posted by: lindsay | April 03, 2006 at 03:01 PM