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Charcoal: Vincent Price
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18″ x 24″ Charcoal rendering of Vincent Price
The original item is available for purchase
just so you have a real idea of what 18 x 24 looks like, here’s a pic with me in it!
A few things on this:
1. I’m still waiting on my instructors feedback but I am posting this prematurely. I guess that shows I’m gaining confidence in my work!
2. Taking a photograph of your work is always problematic. Lights pointed in different directions, all different colors, create glares and blown out levels. This was the best I got without spending my evening taking pics of the drawing.
3. One of the biggest challenges about this picture was his expression. It isn’t surprised, it isn’t scared. It isn’t smiling, it’s really a mixture of things. This I am realizing, is probably part of what makes Vincent Price so incredible. When drawing a face, that is surprised lets say, it is easy to place expressionism in the features because they are an extreme fixated position and you know not only that the eyelids go up, but it is a fixated emotion, whereas this is a multitude and a mystery of feeling. However, I realized that I haven’t really seen any of his real work other than the modern stuff he was nice enough to play a part in. Maybe because I considered most of his old work kinda hokey, but that is being unfair. It’s really weird realizing this, having not only been obsessed with all things horror, but also having spent a good amount of time studying genres of film including Hitchcock and even Jean Luc-Godard. But what is cool, is as I drew this, I realized how much he had influenced a whole genre, and inspired children by making appearances on the Muppets, and being what I realized as an amazing human being. By the time I reached the end stage, not only did I feel like I respected him a whole lot more, but I already was influenced and inspired by him and I haven’t even given him a chance yet.
I’m watching the Abominable Dr. Phibes tonight.
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Still life, charcoal
18 x 24 charcoal still life. Light and shadow, 5 value system, and I was cramped on time. This was my result. I used vine, willow, and HB charcoal for this. Yay!
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About me
I am a creator of art and digital media. I am currently enrolled in The Academy of Art University studying for a BA in 3D animation and VFX. I also created ComicLabs.com, a website design company catered to comedians.
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