I started taking a drawing class from James Daniel. His oil portraits are incredible! Anyway, I wanted to learn more about values because I have a hard time seeing them in color.
James had me do several drawings. The first drawing was just a copy of an old masters drawing. I worked on it for quite a few weeks until it passed his inspection- not really my style because I like to work a little loose when I draw. Anyway, I worked through three drawings with James. I’m sharing the last one here just to give you an idea of what he was having me do – very traditional and very wonderful because he was so patient and so very specific in pointing out my mistakes.
This one is really not refined up to James’ standards but I just simply ran out of time during the school year to go back and forth to class. I hope to continue sometime. Anyway, look him up if you like portraits. You won’t be disappointed!
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