Learning Stage

At the moment I'm not working on new portraits because I want to seriously get better at freehand drawing and drawing from imagination.

So I'm following an online course with great artists like Steve Huston, Danny Galieote and Glenn Vilppu. I already filled up a whole large sketchbook with exercises and I'm learning a lot.

My aim is to sketch portraits completely freehand and also to be able to draw portraits from imagination.

The main purpose is to study the structure of the head and understand its basic anatomy.

After working through the video material I want to draw five minute heads every day.

Although my exercises are not 100% perfect, it all depends on practice and I'm giving myself the time to learn this the way I'm content with. Since I'm very strict with myself this might take longer than I expected.

Portrait Course July 2015 with Klaus Henkelmann

Finally I found the time for a new portrait course. It was about practicing drawing from live models. It lasted four days and we had four very interesting models. I'll post my drawings now. I excluded four drawings, where the proportions were really off. Otherwise, I got great feedback and the teacher said I should practice more from live models than from photographs. I know that but it's not so easy to have a model who sits for me. Then I should draw at least on an A3 size paper. The head should be as long as my stretched hand. He also showed me how to measure properly. I should take an already established facial feature and look how much it fits into other facial parts.

The sessions were only 25 minutes long, so all the drawings are kind of unfinished. However, my time management got better at the end of the course.

First day, young girl:

Second day was an older guy, but the drawings were not accurately. 

Third day:

Fourth day:

I really like the last one. Although it was a different pose I managed to draw it quite accurately.

To sum up, it was a great course. And I definitely need more of this for becoming a better artist.

Two pen & ink drawings

Marilyn Monroe

Olivia Wilde

These are two pen & ink drawings of mine. They were both just for practicing drawing with pens.