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Drawings: Feb 2022

February was in general a good month. I drew most days than not. I spent longer on individual images (rather than get bored and abandon) and I think it was during February that I started to get an idea of certain things like values, paper quality and how difficult faces are! 

Date: 1/2/22

Comment: Total time 45 mins.

100  Faces No. 10.

I think this was the first time I really tried to do some proper shading to get some depth.

Date: 2/2/22

Comment: Total Time 15 mins

100 Face No. 11

The big issue for me was the hair and getting something that resembled hair.

Date: 3/2/22

Comment: Total time: 5 mins

I found a video on hair and practised. This day was also a day when I really didnt want to draw but forced myself to do something.

Date: 5/2/22 and 7/2/22

Comment: Total time: 40 mins

100 Faces No. 12

The beginning of Feb was very much one day on, one day off! This drawing is one where I tried to draw the other bits to the face but gave up.

Date:  9/2/22

Comment: Total Time: 30 mins

100 Faces No. 13

I remember spending more time on the hair than any other part of the face. I also started to realise how hard lips are.

Date: 10/2/22 and 11/2/22

Comment: Total time 48 mins over two sessions

100 Faces No. 14

I think this is the first time I felt comfortable shading the whole face to get a base tone and then add to it. I think this was also when I started to use a wider range of pencils, right up to 6B.

Date:12/2/22 and 14/2/22

Comment: Total time 38 mins over two sessions.

100 Faces No. 15

The first session was only 8 mins and one of those days when I forced myself to do a quick drawing because I was away on Sat and then came back on Sun and missed drawing altogether. I finished it on the Monday.

Date: 16/2/22 and 18/2/22

Comment: Total time 50 mins over two sessions

100 Faces No. 16

Other than the rather gargantuan nose and being a bit more positive around the values, this one came out ok. Also looks like a friend’s husband though he doesnt have a nose like this.

Date: 20/2/22 and 21/2/22

Comment: Total time 32 mins over two sessions

100 Faces No. 17

My one abiding memory of this that I still have a lot to learn about hair!

Date: 22/2/22

Comment: Total time 40 mins

100 Faces No. 18

On a day of all the twos, I am not sure why this took me 40 mins given the lack of detail almost everywhere on this girl’s head and face!

Date: 23/02/22

Comment: Total time 10 mins

100 Faces No. 19

The key thing is that this only took 10 mins and I deliberatly kept it short.

Date: 24/2/22

Comment: Total time 25 mins

100 Faces No. 20

I just couldnt be bothered with the hair especially as I’d gone a bit wrong with the length of the face!

Date: 25 February 2022

Comment: Time taken 25 mins in one sitting.

I broke away from the 100 Faces and thought of using a skull to try and understand some of the core shapes of a face that never change and the planes. The shading is a bit naff though as the reference image had a lot of depth.

Date: 28/2/22

Comment: Total time 13 mins

100 Faces No. 21

This was the last day of month and I had missed the two previous days. It was the last day of the month and a bit busy. So I made a quick attempt by using a soft pencil and just trying to get the basics outline quickly and not spend too much time on shape, proprotions. I set a timer of 10 mins but then overan a little bit. The original aim was to draw more than one (and why it was smaller) but I then got distracted.