Shakespeare

In this week’s Drawing Faces class we drew Roubiliac’s terracotta bust of William Shakespeare which is in the British Museum’s collection.

Portrait bust of William Shakespeare by Louis-François Roubiliac, 1702-1762: The British Museum: © The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence

Lana

Lana drawn on an iPad Air using the Procreate app.

Monk

16th century statue of a Japanese monk drawn with Copic markers and coloured pencils.

Nick

Nick drawn with Copic markers and coloured pencils.

Ùhúnmwèlaò (head of an Ã³bà)

In this week’s Drawing Faces class we drew a cast brass Ùhúnmwèlaò (head of an óbà or king from the Court of Benin) from the 15th-16th century.

Tatiana

Tatiana drawn on an iPad Air using the Procreate app.

Jess

Jess drawn with coloured pencils.

Minerva

In yesterday’s Drawing Faces class we drew Minerva’s head from the Roman Baths in Bath, England. We used gridding to help with accuracy and I used Sharpies, Copic markers and coloured pencils for this drawing.

Ariel/San

Ariel’s photo reminded me so much of San from Princess Mononoke that I had to reimagine her as San. Drawn on an iPad Air using the Procreate app and Retro Supply Cos wonderful new chromatone marker brushes.

Jericho

Jericho drawn on an iPad Air using the Procreate app.