Initital Ideas

With the older face I was able to show more detail
when drawing the skin because of the wrinkles
and imperfections.
 

I looked at the work of Mark Stewart, a portrait artist who uses pencils rather than paint. I wanted to explore a different media. While researching his work I was particularly drawn to the older faces as I felt they created more texture and tell more of a visual story.



I'm happy with the way I blended the tones and shadows by
using different pencil gradients.

This artist then led me to Nick Lepard an artist who paints portraits by layering colour, creating lines within the different tones. This style of painting shows the worn and rough areas of the faces, similar to those found on older people.












In the two portraits above I used acrylic paint applying it with
a flat brush for the faces. I then used various colours of ink
to create the dark backgrounds.

After researching these artists I decided to focus my project on the elder as I think their faces show more expression and emotion whilst telling a story of experience.