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Charcoal Portraits - week 2

Luis TorresComment

In today’s session we begin by exploring the concept of negative space and how to apply this perception tool to our drawings. We look at our reference image upside down, This forces our perception to see the lines and shapes that are really there instead of our mind perception of what we know to be a face.

What we are looking for is the distinction between subject and the space around the subject., we call this negative space. Our goal here is to switch our perception from positive space (subject) to negative space (space around the subject) and see the shapes of it in order to draw them. We are looking for the simplest lines and angles that make up this shapes.

We move on to the final drawing - where we use this new perception tool to develop the major shapes of our subject and add it to our previous method of drawing by stages. Here is a step by step image of the process.

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