koukla carolyn

collections

September 06th, 2005 | Category: Everyday Matters, Graphite

This sketch is for Everyday Matters challenge #31: collections. My old art teacher advised me to keep “collections” of features to help me with my portraiture skills. For example, she told me to draw different kinds of eyes, noses, ears, or lips on a page to study different shapes and lighting. I have been intrigued with lips lately. The set of lips on the bottom of the page is my own. These are some other examples of lips I have drawn:

  • lips
    • and
  • mouth self portrait
    • .

    6 Comments so far

    1. Julie Durocher September 6th, 2005 11:27 pm

      Very nice drawings. I love the shading you achieved with the pencil.

    2. Teri September 7th, 2005 12:46 pm

      You did a wonderful job on these lips. They are distinctly female. I wonder how different the male’s lips are. Another page in your book?

      Teri

    3. koukla September 7th, 2005 1:02 pm

      I have to admit that full Pre-Raphaelite lips are more fun to draw than male lips. I will try it sometime soon though.

    4. Evy September 7th, 2005 2:28 pm

      I really like the way you did these lips. Very nice!

    5. Jim September 7th, 2005 3:31 pm

      Sensual and realistic. I’ve noticed on many classical male renderings their lips are often very full as well (raphael, michelangelo,rubens,ingres, etc.). I think it’s interesting too that very few people have lips such as these. Most are rather dull in comparison.

    6. Terri September 9th, 2005 3:18 am

      These are wonderful! What a terrific take on a ‘collection’. :o)

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