Life Drawing and Figure Art

Drawing Marilyn Monroe

Comment Written by Figure Drawing on June 11, 2009 – 2:37 pm

Drawing a celebrity is a great way to practice your portrait drawing Skills. Everybody will recognize the portrait so if you go looking for feedback from you non artistic friends you can expect some honesty in terms of your accuracy.

I Like It:

• Everybody recognizes Marylin Monroe.
• The drawing is very complete – Use the Pause to get a good look.
• Variety of strokes.
• Great use of rubbing to blend the shadows.
• It’s not too long.

Learning from this:

• Notice How the Artist puts in the initial marks to get the proportions correct.
• Get better at planning figure drawing. Make it fit the format.
• Apply a variety of strokes while you draw, Both, light and dark, thick and thin.
• See how you can soften some edges but leave others hard for an interesting look.

Some people will over do the rubbing. It takes a lot of practice to get it right. Try to blend hard edges and soft edges in your work so that they don’t become too blurry or underdeveloped.

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