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Doing the Betty Edwards thing

Mixed: Drawing: An exercise from the Betty Edwards book:

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Untitled (after Picasso: "Portrait of Igor Stravinsky")
Ballpoint pen on paper. 2019. Around DIN A5 size

I've owned the book for years without even opening it much. So, as I had an occasion to try one of the exercises of course I had to make it harder by using ballpoint..

I actually own two very good books on drawing, and I recommend any one of them for self study. I believe the English titles are:

(1) Betty Edwards: "Drawing on the right side of the brain"

(2) Kimon Nicolaïdes: "The Natural Way To Draw"

The photo top-of-page shows one of the first exercises from the Betty Edwards book. It is supposed to be done upside-down. Also, it is supposed to be carried out using a pencil, only I used a ballpoint pen so that I could not correct errors. Please don't do as I did: do exactly as the book says and use a pencil.

Oh, and I'm not all that satisfied with the outcome. I spent too little time on the last parts of the drawing and I did not uphold sufficient concentration throughout. The similarity is very good though (by all means this is a very good execution, most people do significantly worse).

2019.08.24 11:58 in Mixed media

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