Figurative Drawing - Introductory Class 1st Potrait

Friday, 9/2/2011 was the first day for my first drawing class that I ever took at Stevens Tech. It was kind of depressing because I love art and sketching and I had done it for years before entering college but had not practiced for the 4 years I was at Stevens. I guess thats not fully right as I did do a few portraits here and there for the Stevens Art Magazine RedShift. Nevertheless, I do kind of wish l took more art tech classes because Fig Drawing is just great. It brought back my passion of portrait drawing.


Personal stuff aside, the first portrait I drew was of a friend I knew before the class who was also taking it- Tatiana.

Since it has been a while that I've done a full portrait, the lighting and shading was not accurate. I used to do more cross hatching and I find that technique to add more detail to the overall piece. Tatianas nose was particularly difficult to draw and the professor, P. JTR, introduced a way of drawing noses and eyes by guidance of circles which I never thought of before. Maybe using it for the first time may have thrown me off a bit. Other than that, Tatianas portrait was really fun to make. It revived my dead passion for sketching!! Thank you Tatiana <3