Sunday 2 January 2011

Heads & Shoulders...

Knees and toes, knees and toes. Heads and shoulders knees and toes, and eyes and ears and mouth and nose... it's time I stretched my comfort zones...

This sketch represents the beginning of a limbering up in my pencils. I do love to draw a face, but it's time to branch out. We start by tucking the hair behind the ear and attempting to capture the funny little thing. My poor models in the past have suffered with hearing problems and have complained to Artquity (that's the artist models' union you know) that they never have ears! What a cheek! In fact, the only time I think I ever attempt anything auditory is for pointy elf appendages.

And as for fingers... well if I can hide them under a fold of clothing then all the better.

Not so now my friends for it's time to feel the pain, it's time to put on those trainers and get the heart beating hard and fast. It's time to leave the comforting blanket of long hair and head and shoulder poses... Eek, am I up to the challenge?

My post for this week's Sunday Sketches.

29 comments:

  1. You are off to a good start. Your ear and fingers look perfect! Yes..it is so much easier to hide them under folds of cloth and hair isn't it? I do it all the time. Maybe it's time for me to leave my comfort zone too.

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  2. Well you need to get out of your comfort zone more often because you did a perfect job on your ear and hand. She came out beautiful.

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  3. Yep, you are up to the challenge - love the colors in her hair - ear is perfect - great look!!!
    cheers, dana

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  4. No worries with the ear and hand, looks perfect to me, have faith in yourself you are doing brilliantly. Annette x

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  5. Inspiring post! Beautiful lines and colors.

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  6. She looks just fine. I especially like her ear.

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  7. You sure are up for it, Lisa!!

    Great ear and hand!! She could be a pianist!

    Beautiful!

    (And excellent word! Will you write a post about it?)

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  8. I am laughing as this is so like ME! I hate drawing ears and forget hands or feet!!! Now I will have to rethink and maybe try to stretch myself too! I love your bold spirit, girl!

    Sweet!

    Smiles

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  9. I know what you mean about the ears and fingers! But you certainly are up to the challenge. Nice job on this sketch!

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  10. yea to your stretching your abilities! I am in the same space, I want to learn all these details too. I was looking at the piece I posted and realized she is missing an ear, oh my!
    This piece is wonderful, I love her fingers!

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  11. Beautiful Lisa, The ear and the fingers are all done extremely well, keep getting out of your comfort zone it is inspiring.

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  12. Hahaha, congrats on having a model with ears! tehe This reminds me of a story an art teacher once told us about someone drawing a model standing in a bucket, because they didn't want to draw feet!

    You've done a beautiful job and I love the purple shadows!

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  13. Great drawing. I'm with ya on the ears and fingers. I really like the eys and nails!

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  14. good for you taking the challenge! I like her, especially the hair.

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  15. Happy New Year, Lisa. I love her eyes!! Great work!!

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  16. Happy New Year Lisa!!! Let me say I think that ear is fantastic! Very good. My motto is Feel the Fear and do it anyway!!!!!

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  17. Hi Lisa..she is dazzling and beautiful..wonderful work as always! I enojoy ALL you create..you are awesome!

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  18. You are definitely up to the challenge, she's looking good and has all her senses functioning.

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  19. oh yes, a very inspiring post to kick off the new year. I agree, i need to step out of the old comfort zones, too!
    You did a great job, she looks good, i like HER left eye and her coloring...she's very 80s and i love that!!!!
    a very big happy new year to you, lisa, it's been great to meet you in the blog world!
    xxoo

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  20. Wow,this is awesome. I think she looks beautiful and you are amazing. Her eyes, ear, hair perfect. Job well done!!

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  21. I love thinking of the changes as one who goes into training. well done brave girl!

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  22. Stretching is good and you succeeded with the fingers/ear.

    My "stretch" is actually joining the Sketchbook Challenge along with you (and those 100's of other folks). Now I have to stretch some more and become familiar with Flicker

    Darla

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  23. Hi Lisa,
    Sorry for the delay. I've been moving and just starting to get settled in.

    Lovely sketch I LOVE those finger nails! :D

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  24. I seriously love how you use different colors for shading rather than just using black and white. An art teacher I had for a short time was trying to show me how to do that and I just did not understand what she was trying to say but have tried it on my own! Your drawing is wonderful!

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  25. Yes, yes, yes - You are definitely up for the challenge... beautiful.

    I'm looking forward to seeing more :)

    xo
    Kristin

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  26. Lovely use of line! I think all features have their own challenges, ears are a nuisance aren't they?! Thanks for stopping by my blog. :) xx

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  27. It appears you are up for the challenge!

    Great creatively written post - made me chuckle thinking about the character's you've drawn complaining.

    Kat :-)

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  28. Mmm stray apostrophe in 'characters' - I obviously need to limber up and work on my grammar. Lol.

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