An unusually narrow viewpoint

A head and shoulders portrait drawn from life. After a few quick 3-5 minute poses the model takes a pose for the rest of the session, often an hour and a half. That gives a lot of time for erasing and correcting the drawing but also a lot of time to overwork the thing. I basically knew when I started this that I wanted to focus on the model’s head. Specifically the shape of the head interested me. The model has a military background and the bearing and  close cropped hair that goes with that. But he also is an devotee of yoga, which I thought gives him a sense of peaceful strength. I saw this long narrow paper in pads at the art supply store. It forces you to think a little different about the figure because so much of it will be cropped off. But in some ways it is easier. Anything you do on it is going to be interesting.

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