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Portrait of a Partisan.
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Yugoslav partisan Albina Mali-Hočevar.
Made for practicing portraits. Timelapse in comments.
That was really neat to see. I give my chef who is trying to learn to draw lessons here and there when it's slow and I bet if I got him to film himself drawing something and I sped up the footage it would help me help him. It was interesting seeing the process, your approach to linework is kinda the inverse of mine. I start with the frame right eye and bridge of the nose each time and work my way out, I dont frame the face until the end but stylistically we come to similar end results. Although I havent drawn a person in a really long time.
I will say that recording timelapses does help, it shows that drawing is a long process of quantitative changes layered until a complete illustration takes shape. It builds motivation for making future paintings.
It also helps to observe when and how you can change your technique, choices made early on that could have changed the whole end result.
As for my approach to linework, I will add that I sometimes skip it all together in favor of starting with blocking shapes, but that usually goes poorly if I don't already have a strong mental image of what I want to depict.