Portraiture

I've always been fascinated by faces. I love finding the unique parts of each person's face and mentally reconfiguring them into a caricature. That said, I also thought it was important for me to learn a more classical approach to portraiture. To that end, I took a portraiture class with David Luce last term. He has a very traditional teaching approach: begin with a rub-out, proceed to grisaille, limited palette, then move to full-color. Here's some in-class work.

I couldn't resist doing just one caricature...