Confessions of a researchaholic

Art works, including 3D sculptures and 2D advertisements, are already abstracted and serving as excellent sources to practice drawing.

Unique faces, beautiful or ugly, are easier to draw, because they already have distinctive features. It is the mundane and ordinary that take will more efforts to read, see, extract, and depict.

I ensured correct proportion of the base layer/structure before proceeding to the details. This saved time, taking me about one hour to finish this one. Previously, I sometimes noticed mistakes on the base layer which thought I could fix or hide with upper detailed layers, but that just took me a lot of time with little benefits.

Both the face and the water surface are challenging to draw.

Spatial-temporal trade-off for live portrait: the longer the session, the more precise and detailed the drawing can be, but the subject will also wear a more neutral expression.

Solution: practice drawing from memory.

More (layer-based) experiments are planned to come.
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The face can be shortened a bit to better depict his intelligence.

I read the news on a morning train and decided to draw this interesting face.

I saw this advertisement on The Economist of a little girl peeking out of a train window. The entire picture has a brownish tone. I slightly elongated the face, accidentally turning the kid into an adolescent.