Drawing faces from magazines
Mon, January 7, 2013 at 07:32AM 
A4 watercolor moleskine journal, slicci pen, watercolor
A page I started just before Thanksgiving in the A4 watercolor Moleskine journal. Worked on it off and on for awhile. A twist on the page of faces I've drawn a few times because I am drawing from reference photos. After drawing a freehand grid of shapes I started hunting in the Italian magazines I brought back from our trip, looking for interesting faces to draw. I cut out each new face and sketched in a box. Then I watercolored a bit. Next I cut even more faces and taped them to drawing paper. So I have 6 pages of faces, and I'd like to collect even more faces... older faces, guy faces, various nationalities, angles, facial expressions... and more faces with glasses. I find that my faces are much better with a reference! I love, love, love seeing all of my practice start to gel, start to come together.
P.S. Issue #7 of the Daisy Yellow Zine is available now. And I'm already working on Issue #8 expected out in early March.
P.S.S. I've been making stitched collages for my 365 Somethings Project with Hanna! My first collage is in this post: Paradigm Shift. There's a Flickr group now, brand new.
Reader Comments (11)
These are great! I love how you continue to find all these ways to stay creative and grow as an artist. Very inspiring!
Nice, Tammy.
What a nice idea! I have thought of drawing a face a day, or a week. This gave me inspiration! Thank you!
This is a very cool idea that works on so many levels!
I love the look of this, Tammy! I think I might enjoy drawing faces if each one was only one small piece of a larger page. And I like your little touches of color. What great drawing practice!
This is great! On a completly RANDOM note... i was exploring on the cool blogs list... and fell in love with Awkward & beautiful. BUT all of a sudden i clicked it and it shows this blank wierd page... like its a new unused blog. is this happening to you? D=
{Response from Tammy}: Someone, Natty didn't renew her domain name so here's a link that still works: http://awkwardnbeautiful.blogspot.com.
this is a great way to practice a whole lot of different types of faces at once. your sketches are great! xx
these rock the casbah dear tammy! ;)
Oh thank you SO much! I love this blog! :D
love it!
I really enjoy drawing faces from magazines. I'm woefully behind on scanning in mine, but here a few older ones.
I get tired of Photoshopped models and celebrities sometimes, but I have found some great faces in trade journals and charity magazines (like the circular from Heifer International, for example).