portraiture – drawing faces

Bryan

Bryan drawn with Bic ballpoint pens.

We drew Anne Boleyn in this week’s Drawing Faces class, from a portrait of her in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.

(Anne Boleyn by Unknown English artist, late 16th century, NPG 668, National Portrait Gallery, London, Creative Commons License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/)

Zoey drawn with coloured pencils.

We drew a study of Cecilia Gallerani, Leonardo do Vinci’s The Lady With An Ermine, in this week’s Drawing Faces class.

Bridget drawn with coloured pencils.

Kennedy drawn on an iPad Air using the Procreate app.

Jenell drawn with ballpoint pens.

Green man drawn with Copic markers and coloured pencils in yesterday’s Artist in Residence Tag Team teachers class celebrating May Day.

Mad drawn on an iPad Sir using the Procreate app.

In this week’s Drawing Faces class we drew a Roman mummy portrait from the British Museum’s collection using Copic markers and coloured pencils.

Roman Mummy portrait, Egypt 80-120 AD: 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.) (encaustic and tempera on limewood panel)