This is after a Burne-Jones head study.
And this is after a Hans Holbein study. I have a Dover book of a bunch of his portrait studies from King Henry VIII's court. They are fabulous - and for the most part show somewhat homely, very 'real' looking people. Not idealized at all.
And this is a totally uncharacteristic Alphonse Mucha study. Loved it that he has some 'monster drawings' in addition to his more typical lyrical ladies and lovely art-nouveau botanicals.Graphite and white charcoal. Drawn in an 11x14, hardcover Utrecht sketchbook with 'oatmeal' pages.
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This is really cool, Tara. (the sketchbook AND the drawings) I think I will have to get one of these sketchbooks.
And where did you see that Mucha drawing? I don't think I have ever seen Mucha monsters before.
Beautiful drawings Tara, it looks great fun using a tinted background. :)xx
Wow! that is so great to be able to pop in the highlights, a whole new dimension.
Very cool sketchbook (and sketches)! I haven't used toned paper in ages, it *is* nice to be able to do both shadow and highlight.
Beautiful! I'm currently playing about with dones/dark paper at the moment. I love the way you can then set elements to pop out with highlighting and shade :)
Great idea... they look fantastic! So much more fun than white all the time :)
i didn't know that Mucha did some monster drawings, rally interesting to find out
Well, as soon as I saw the hair on the first sketch I thought to myself, "wow, I wish my hair gleamed like that".
Good highlights! :)
That is very atypical Mucha, though (as with all his work) still great to look at. And I am continually in awe at what comes out of your fingers, though you must know that by now.
Very cool! I love it!
Just love these! How different it must have been to draw on toned paper. So cool.
what a wonderful set of drawings, i do so admire your style. I used to love working with highlights back into a charcoal saturated piece of paper at college, very messy.
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