FaceBook friends (part 1)

Monday, 3 January 2011

After making mainly abstarct droodles for months, i felt a desire to make some more concrete drawings. I even consider trying to make a comic, but i still don’t have the necessary courage to start a time consuming project that is surely heading for nowhere. After drawing the portrait of Si Cranstoun, i tried some other portraits. That didn’t work out very well, because i have no real idea how to do it. Sometimes a portrait comes easily, sometimes it will not come, no matter how hard i try. So, to learn more about the craft, i decided to draw all my FaceBook friends. That are over 170 people, of which half are completely unknown to me.
Here are the first attempts:

They are not all good, but because this is all done as a practise, i try not to bother too much about that. I want to learn to be able to make a more or less recognisable drawing of a picture within less than an hour.

I know from experience that some people are seriosly offended by drawings that i have made of them. I will try not to bother with that; it is not my atteention to make fun of anybody or to make stupid portraits of them. Hey, it is pretty difficult to catch a real person on paper with only a handful of lines!

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