Week 3: Portraits looking interesting!

Very good progress made tonight by everyone and in very individual ways. Here is the latest instalment from everyone's work.

Andy: Great to see you continuing your long term ideas. Be brave and add different shapes on the face where the skin is darker/lighter. It is well worth taking this much further with a full background colour and more style on the lettering. 

Dorothy: lovely tone work and great variety of technique (contrast the linear work on the hair with the tone work on the jacket). I would continue adding more variety line weight around the eyes, nose and mouth to finish this off.

Ella: such well observed detail and lovey sensitive use of line weight which is actually helped by your use of the H grade pencil :-) Keep adding variable line weights around parts of the eyes, nose and wrinkles. Move slowly out from the eyes and nose to do the rest of the face and hair.

Graeme: Good to see you still enjoying your long term goal (complementing Andy's). Great to see the blue background and textures. Keep developing the background and the motifs around the central figure. 

Jeff: this is turning into a really interesting portrait. Increase the amount lines and vary the weight of each line to add depth and texture to the beard and hair. You just need to make the beard seem more dense and much darker. 

Rebecca: such a well observed and sensitive study. Keep going like this and you will create a great portrait.  Work you way out from the centre of the face slowly. I like the way you gently map the shapes e.g. the shadow under the eyebrows, before adding line and darker tones. Keep it up!

Yvonne: such a wonderfully "fulsome" range of tones. This guy feels real and solid. That is due to your depth of tone and contrast of values, dark to light. Continue adding lines to the beard and vary the weight and shape/direction of those lines as much as you can.