Shannon’s 100 Day Art Challenge : Expression & Emotion study in graphite

[Shannon]

I haven’t been online in a couple of days but I did draw. I hit a wall of frustration because I’m so unsure of how to improve and move forward with perspective.

Side note : why is the formatting so bad?? My photos keep showing up sideways and I can’t edit anything.

[Nick Hausman]

First off, these forums don’t get a ton of traffic, but there are a fair number of regular posters for the challenge. So don’t expect too many replies.

Capturing emotion in portraits is a fairly advanced topic. Since you are also struggling with perspective, you might want to go back to basics for a while and go through one of the beginner courses like the Russian Academic Drawing course or the Beginner Drawing course. Or you could take a look at some of the head drawing videos, I think there are several different series to choose from.

Most likely, to capture expressions, you will need to get the features of the face in the proper proportions and locations reliably.

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