How I deal with world leaders

[Red_desert]

Pretty cool, Red Desert. You got some nice shirts, too.

Thanks! I figured since this is making video, eventually to go on YouTube.....might be smart to keep changing shirts. I've even got some western styles also, using them plus everything else looks nice. Normally, don't dress that way, mostly casual everyday jeans and flannel shirts in the winter.

 

[lastleg]

Looks like the subject has a rather large goiter.

 

[Red_desert]

Looks like the subject has a rather large goiter.

I don't know about goiter, but my reason to use this subject first was intended to make it hard. It's easy to get a sketch to come out looking good of a pretty lady.....take a look at what I had to work with included both black & white then color. This is more of a test to see how well graphite, charcoal pencils, ink, can blend together as a type of black & white mix media. The first sketch was for a study of the media, the 2nd finding ways to apply what seemed to work on the 1st.

Looks to me more like tensed up throat muscles and vocal cords.....it's so rare to find public photos of the subject with the mouth shut, main reason why these are my study photos for the study portraits.

Anyway, you need a completed start project before improving on a new technique and I'm fully aware that the learning process is going to require (in order to perfect) many, many, finished projects. Next sketch project to start will be a pretty female, on a larger size paper of 18" x 24". Hopefully, 2 of them larger sized, eventually finished to look nice. Artwork is all about challenges, the need to do better and better.

 

[Red_desert]

It's hard to see details from a video screenshot, these are closeups using a DSLR camera with only the overhead light on at night. Flash on some, others without flash, put next to the wall to see how it looks at different angles. The graphite in the mix media more or less has reflective properties, so different angles change how things appear. The 3 lighter, brighter pics were either taken using flash or put in front of a window (has been a while, don't remember for sure which way did these but I'm thinking it was flash).

 

[Red_desert]

Sorry, don't have any DSLR closeup pics on the last sketch ready yet.

 

[Red_desert]

Oh, the right area of the sketch wasn't finished yet, as you can see in the screenshot from the video. Since then, the chin line and darker shadows below it, were put in darker using the hand carved wooden ink pens.....these work more like small paint brushes except with ink. The right collar, top of shoulder line, did these today as part of the final finish (usually put off the hard stuff until later). Have to check things out very carefully, under different type of light conditions. It will look much better next time.

 

[Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp]

So RED, you have other talents, sides dowsing.

 

[Red_desert]

Look at it this way, I'll be turning 60 years next month. Social Security payments when I turn retirement age, could be hardly enough to have paid the monthly rent decades ago, in places like Sana Monica, CA (back around 1989). Having been unemployed for years and hanging out in the dowsing board.....I best be doing something to make my future a little better.

Yes, I enjoy art and was planning on doing that instead of a regular labor type job in the late 1990s. Studied up all kinds of art books, even joined the American Portrait Society a couple years. I really miss their magazine, could rejoin again that would help. Anyway, this was painting in acrylic, still have my paints and brushes.

 

[lastleg]

Should you have any girl dowser etchings the Don and I would evaluate at no expense
to you.

 

[Red_desert]

Only projects have right now are portraits of world leaders, the next one on 18" x 24" to be started soon, is QR a queen of a country.

 

[Red_desert]

Should you have any girl dowser etchings the Don and I would evaluate at no expense
to you.

I don't even know any girl dowsers, there used to be one on the forum in Florida, not heard from her for quite a while.

 

[Red_desert]

Here are some screenshots, made from an exercise video clip mentioned in my opening post. This was right before my 60th birthday. Well, I'm still exercising the same way as before. As for world leaders, nearly have the first 1-2 movies edited now for YouTube and will post one in the hobby board when uploaded. There will be plenty more sketches later.

Now I'm certain that "mix media" was an appropriate name for the new sketching technique (especially for world leaders).

 

[rginn]

Good to see you.

 

[Red_desert]

Good to see you.

Thanks! Good to see you also RGINN. I'm really having a good time getting things ready for YouTube. I just now have part 1 finished, is on making the wood pens for the ink in sketch mix media techniques. I want to finish part 2 first, which shows some of the actual sketching work being done. My Norton is soon to run out in a couple days...so, need to update Internet protection and then get done.

 

[Red_desert]

Well, finished up the first about 12 minute video for YouTube...don't have uploaded yet and want to finish the next video also. I think it might be better to get ready 2-3 related ones before starting unloading them online.

Today tested out cam effects in my computer room, both still shots and clips. Not dressed up but seing how things would work out. I'll be turning 62 years before March is over with, nice to have a few pics while still only 61. People used to tell me I look just like John Denver. Of coarses, was much younger back then. Once I worked with a guy who moved here from Colorado. He always would come by my work station say, Hey Denver, are you going to sing us a song?".

These here are all still shots, more later for the others.

 

[Red_desert]

This time no wearing glasses.