(WP5)___PORTRAIT DRAWING SESSIONS

A few years ago, I worked in a studio drawing realistic portraits. The method to create our portraits was very mechanical.


A photo is printed by a mechanical process similar to silk screening to get the basic measurements of the face. By this way, we have the right dimensions of the face and with it, a base for our PENCIL WORK. By this method, the final appearance of the portrait is drawn in few minutes. Although this methodology is very effective and attractive, I prefer other PORTRAIT TECHNIQUES.

Since we created our life drawing group, we have done different PORTRAIT DRAWING SESSIONS.

(LIFE DRAWING BCN, April 21th, 2013)

My role as co-organizer was prepare some exercises to draw QUICK PORTRAITS. 
When people arrive at our studio, they go into couples. The aim of the activity is that in several posing routines each of the couple must draw the other. We have two posing routines of 5 minutes to capture the facial characteristics of our partner and create a 10 MINUTE PORTRAIT SKETCH. Everybody is free to develop their own graphic style.

(LIFE DRAWING BCN, January 15th, 2014)

The person who becomes a model, sits down in front of the sketcher facing the wall the room. On this wall we project some portrait samples and instructional videos.

(LIFE DRAWING BCN, November 13th, 2013)

It´s a way to entertain and teach our models while they pose, so that, they don´t get bored. Even though, most sketchers don´t expect that they will become a model, the feedback has been nothing but positive.