FACEPOCALYPSE

Last Saturday was the 3rd sketch meetup for our Perth sketch group. I would encourage any artist to come down and draw with us. It’s an awesome incentive to draw with other artists and a good chance to trade tips.

I’ve always been terrible at giving faces ‘character’, and while I don’t want to go as far as Jeff‘s caricatures, it’s nice to see how he tackles them and get some protips.

I haven’t taken these very far from realism (and a few are totally representational), but I think I’m improving with faces. It’s also helped me to think about the underlying structure (map it on a skull shape), as you would when learning anatomy.

Learning the base form allows you to exaggerate it in ways that aren’t absurd.

This week’s sketch meetup event is here. Greens @ 2:30-5pm on Saturday. Possibly my last meet before ducking off.

The sketch group for sketching. As a group. In Perth. has been born kicking! Created yesterday and it’s already held an event. People have been talking about getting regular sketch groups going in Perth for ages, and now it’s happening. The group had its first meetup today, which was basically Jeff and I telling everyone we were meeting at Hyde Park to draw/paint, and anyone else interested was welcome.

I bet Jeff that noone else would come.

I was pleasantly surprised when 3 other people came along, 2 of which were complete strangers to Jeff and myself! Thus is the power of the interwebs.

And here is a picture – Party of 5 (incl me)!

We’ll probably make Saturdays a regular thing so join the group if you want to join us.

I used the opportunity to do a watercolour painting for Mother’s Day. I referenced a black and white Daily Mirror (Sydney) newspaper clipping from 1985, just after I was born. Mum and I made page 5 with a very punny article entitled “Boxer’s a champ at just eight pounds.”