{"id":1104,"date":"2020-04-28T14:13:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T18:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2020-05-10T15:50:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T19:50:59","slug":"1104-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/1104-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Portrait copy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fine work, Grace, from locating the image and its proportions during the schematic to your very fine touch, emulating Degas\u2019\u2014very much what I was hoping this exercise could offer.<\/p>\n

A few notes:<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll note that Degas\u2019 model has a more inward expression, like she\u2019s lost in thought, while yours feels very attentive to us and engaged. It\u2019s because his upper lids are lowered just a scintilla more, eclipsing more of the irises, which are also slightly larger in his.<\/p>\n

Her eyebrows are not the continuous arched curves that you show, but rise from the center outward on a straight axis (the darker portion) before bending downward more abruptly, and at a slight angle as they also become lighter in value (they\u2019re turning back onto the side of the head).<\/p>\n

The shadow on the bridge of the nose isn’t quite as dark, and curves slightly. The upper bridge of her nose, just below the brow, is also narrower.<\/p>\n

Good work on the hair, but still a tendency to add a lot of hair-like lines. Note there are very few in the original\u2014mainly diagonal hatching to establish a value, and then a few select hairs.<\/p>\n

The shadow on her hair band is too dark and defined. It wants to frame her face and add volume (as a cross-contour line) but not draw too much attention to itself.<\/p>\n

Great job keeping all of your edges soft and your touch light. Wonderful to see.<\/p>\n

Well done, Grace\u2014I commend your patient attention and sensitive interpretation.<\/p>\n

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Fine work, Grace, from locating the image and its proportions during the schematic to your very fine touch, emulating Degas\u2019\u2014very much what I was hoping this exercise could offer. A few notes: You\u2019ll note that Degas\u2019 model has a more inward expression, like she\u2019s lost in thought, while yours feels very attentive to us and … Continue reading “Portrait copy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1045,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-portraiture-prep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1045"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}