Face # 1: Lethargy at the museum

This year (2024) I’ll be trying to draw faces, all year long. By the end of the year, I’d like to be able to capture some truly emotive expressions on faces. I was never good at drawing any portion of the human physique, but some practice will get me closer. Sorry if these start off rough or scratchy, this is merely my first try. Just trying to improve my line work and technique in regard to sketching.

I’ve never been good with names, but faces I remember upon the first time seeing one. I was at The Mint Museum in Charlotte recently. I was alone, checking out art and this group of four girls in their mid-twenties walked into a sculpture room where I was browsing a few pieces. Among these girls was a hipster looking chick. Spikey hair, feminine in kind of a punk way, had big eyes and very plain attire. What separated her from her friends was that… she looked so utterly bored to be at the museum. She was just kind of listlessly walking around, looking kind of sad or detached, taking pictures with her cell phone instead of absorbing or contemplating the beauty of the art on display. After she came near me a few times, I started to memorize her face and the way she looked as she lethargically sauntered around the hall. I kept thinking that I wanted to capture the disconnected look on her face, so I drew it! More to come.

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Creature of habit. 5x8. Pencil color pencil and markers on paper. 2024.

Good morning! Starting the week with a few WIP sketches I’ve been working on. Next comes an oil pastel then a painting.

Just taking this time to say have a good day and a great week everyone.

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Piercing the veil. 5x8. Pencil color pencil and markers on paper.

This was the original drawing for my oil pastel of the same name. Another WIP I was reluctant to post. Plus it’s a little waterlogged as the sketchpad got wet in a basement flooding. Just posting now.

Have a good day and a great weekend everyone.

The Affrontist. 5x8. Pencil and color pencil on paper.

Someone who hurls insults like bowling balls. I was just sketching and this just came out. It’s a WIP and I already did an oil pastel that I will post at a later time.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed. (Albert Einstein)