Thursday, September 01, 2005

blind contour friday 05

the boys
this past saturday, i finally got to visit my parents. naturally, my seven year old brother jack was there, as were my two nephews, alex and william (7 and 4 respectively). while i was waiting for them to gather up the motivation to eat their beans and rice, i entertained them by drawing them without looking. you have to be quick though; little boys have a hard time holding those poses that they find so amusing.

i had to clean up the pictures, as i drew them all on top of one another, but i hope that it's not too confusing.

for all of the other participants in blindcontour friday, please refer to inkfinger.

9 comments:

  1. these are great! you can tell that they were having fun and making faces at you, I can just hear them laughing as I look at this, wonderful !

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  2. I really like the William face. The composition on the whole piece is really great, especially for a blind contour. I kind of want to see William in color.

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  3. zombies!
    its funny i can actually tell whos who still

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  4. What great portraits--I'm sure you captured their personalities perfectly!

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  5. i'm glad i'm not the only one who feels that i can recognize the doodles for actual kids, sutter.

    laura, i think that the personalities actually do come through for jack and william. but alex looks too serene; i blame it on the fact that he said he didn't feel well and was a little sulky. it's funny how the one kid who wasn't having trouble holding a pose was the one i rushed through the most.

    jim-yeah, i really liked william's face too. the composition, however, was a little doctored. i moved alex over a little bit so he'd fit in the 440x330 px range. there were also some false william starts that i drew over with jack. i had to take those out to make sense of the rest of the images. otherwise, they're all pretty much in the same place.

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  6. nice seeks, i love jack!
    i also find it very amusing that william kept that face going.haha

    sorry about your link not being up on inkfinger, i promis i had it up there.

    typepad sucks!

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  7. Your bc portraits are excellent.

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  8. These are great fun! Well done. :o)

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