http://jamesobrien.us/blog/2008/06/robert-kennedy-portrait/ Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:06:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://jamesobrien.us/blog/2008/06/robert-kennedy-portrait/#comment-7 dave Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:55:48 +0000 http://jamesobrien.us/blog/2008/06/robert-kennedy-portrait/#comment-7 Wow, really interesting. Must try that. Is there a book he discussed the technique in? Yep I got that the black and white was the original - do you deliberately draw it longer or is it just the way it develops naturally? I wouldn't have thought it would work as a realistic portrait and would have started again, and yet it's spot on! weird. Is that a graphite stick or wooden pencil? Wow, really interesting. Must try that. Is there a book he discussed the technique in? Yep I got that the black and white was the original – do you deliberately draw it longer or is it just the way it develops naturally? I wouldn’t have thought it would work as a realistic portrait and would have started again, and yet it’s spot on! weird. Is that a graphite stick or wooden pencil?

]]> http://jamesobrien.us/blog/2008/06/robert-kennedy-portrait/#comment-8 J OBrien Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:03:29 +0000 http://jamesobrien.us/blog/2008/06/robert-kennedy-portrait/#comment-8 Thanks Dave, actually the original drawing is the "stretched" one. I corrected the distortion using Photoshop, creating the blue line version. The original sketch was done in a moleskin sketchpad with a 3B graphite pencil. Jack Unruh is an illustrator who begins his sketches by drawing one eye and moving out to sketch the entire face using that first eye as a reference point. This introduces distortion while also allowing for a representational rendering. His work can be seen here: http://www.jackunruh.com/home.html Thanks Dave, actually the original drawing is the “stretched” one. I corrected the distortion using Photoshop, creating the blue line version. The original sketch was done in a moleskin sketchpad with a 3B graphite pencil. Jack Unruh is an illustrator who begins his sketches by drawing one eye and moving out to sketch the entire face using that first eye as a reference point. This introduces distortion while also allowing for a representational rendering. His work can be seen here: http://www.jackunruh.com/home.html

]]> http://jamesobrien.us/blog/2008/06/robert-kennedy-portrait/#comment-9 dave Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:23:36 +0000 http://jamesobrien.us/blog/2008/06/robert-kennedy-portrait/#comment-9 Love this drawing James. Is it pencil or graphite stick? how come it looks so like him when you stretched it out but not in the original? BTW what's "Jack Unruh distortion"? Love this drawing James. Is it pencil or graphite stick? how come it looks so like him when you stretched it out but not in the original?
BTW what’s “Jack Unruh distortion”?

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