creepy friend portrait and a plaster study

[mime]

2 more things ive done for school, first a portrait of one friend on colored paper, with extreme light.

the other one is a 50*65cm drawing with charcoal of the same sculpture i did a smaller pastel study. about 10 hour on this one ... we had to have the drawing perfect in proportion and lines before applying the values ...
and the method the teacher asked us for values was several layers of uniform grays, and each layer of gray was done with very small and thin and close hatching ... very tedious and time consuming, but excellent for learning how to visualise the shapes and the differents values on a subject.

http://erhnam.free.fr/flamand.jpg

http://erhnam.free.fr/escalve_fusain.jpg


comments and crits are welcome as always :)

[kaini]

Hey Michel, thats great !!

Check proportions more often, measure all the time. I say this because there are some flaws in the first portrait. It is a bit asymetrical, higher or lower one of the ears.

One more thing. Be brave when you draw, push the darks more, make bigger contrasts. Right now, the portrait of you friend is too uncertain, not enough life. Try to make the eyes, ears and heir darker and at the same time try to brighten the ares which are fully hit by light. It the extreme contrasts that make a creepy picture.

[mime]

thanxs for your comments Kaini.
You're right about the first portrait, but we had to do these portraits in 45 minuts each, not a very long time, but i should spend a little more time on the first structure of a drawing (like we do in plaster cast drawing, but we havd 6 hours for the construction) before detaillling and rendering, in fact i would have more time and less things to adjust when its not easy to do it ...