Live model classes

For the past three weeks, I have gone to a live drawing group every tuesday. There is no instruction. These are a few of my better studies.

Tupac

After doing Biggie Smalls, I wanted to do a matching portrait of his rival, Tupac Shakur, in a similar style. I experimented with using more white out for the highlights and to create a gray value in combination with the black marks.

Biggie

This is a drawing I did about two months ago, just after my shoulder surgery. I was trying to re-learn my graffiti alphabet with my left hand. One night I decided to try a black and white shadow shape drawing of a face with graffiti being the dark shadow shape. After doing one pretty poor drawing with no form at all, I decided to attempt to convey form through overlaying writing in different thicknesses. Here's the result. (This is Christopher Wallace, popularly known as Biggie Smalls and the Notorious BIG. "If you dont know now you know")