Gestural Drawing

One of my art goals is to draw a good likeness of someone live in ~10 minutes. My current workflow takes hours to get there with lots of measuring and re-measuring. This is me trying to draw on the fly with no measuring. ~15 minutes.

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6 Comments

viral.vegabond@piefed.social · 4 pts · 19h (3 replies)

Looks like John Stewart

BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 17h (2 replies)

I can see it. I wasn't painting John though lol

viral.vegabond@piefed.social · 2 pts · 14h (1 reply)

It's a very nice rendition, none-the-less

BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 14h

Thank you!

smaximov@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 22h (1 reply)

Love the eyes.

BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 17h

Thank you!