I have been posted details of faces cropped from some of my figure drawings. I found these drawings in a sketchbook that I used a few years ago in a figure drawing workshop at Porter Mill. I am ending this little series with this one. This is graphite bar on paper, done in a style that I call "ghost drawings". I turn the graphite bar on its side to draw, so I get wide bands of shadow rather than fine lines. For the face, I do use a few lines drawn with the tip or edge of the graphite bar.
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Randy: Your portraits are soft, still and contemplative. I always want to be still and listen....they trade detail for spirit. When you can look at Jonathan's work http://jonathanmachen.com/
I have always found his characters reveal a social-political experience even when the focus is on the wear of time in a face. His detail expresses the trials of life.
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