I like the ink line on the body, but not the face. Or, to be more precise, the treatment of the face doesn’t match the body. The body’s line-work is much simpler and spontaneous than the face; it would be better if the two parts matched. Also, the head is too small; it makes figure look super-heroic.
I like the way I smushed the end of the nearly-dry brush into the paper to get the effect of nappy negro body hair.
This drawing is not at all
influenced by Picasso, except that it’s mostly blue in color (referencing Mr.
P’s Blue Period), and seems to be set in Africa (Cubism was heavily influenced
by African Art).
I
rather like it, though, looking at it a year later, it would have been better
without the shadow of the foliage that runs directly behind the black man’s
penis, thus making it almost unreadable. Or maybe that’s a good thing.
On this drawing, I cut out sections from various
pieces of scrap pager, then glued it onto the page. I then painted into it
with gouache and drew onto it with
colored pencil.
Colored Pencil is the tool of choice for today’s
tasteful sketch.
Today I continue playing with the penis/testicle
cut-paper combo I created for the pages I posted yesterday. This one, I drew
into with colored pencil. Is this an African American penis, as opposed to an
Asian penis? You decide.
