Portrait drawing

To practice portrait drawing I drew Jaime and she drew me. We did this in 10 minute blocks of looking and drawing so we each had equal chance.

First drawing

My favourite was the first drawing that I did because I feel like I caught some of her personality in the expression and it resembles her most closely. I also like the conte drawing especially the shading around the cheekbone.

mythical beast version

Emphasised shadows

Dragon facial expressions

 Based on the direct observations we experimented with other ways of drawing the person which still expressed something about them, like caricature. I trued variations of lighting on the face to express mystery then experimented with more abstract creature versions. I like the mythical creatures pose and just added features such as the hair style to directly link it to Jaime's appearance instead of just her personality.

I later extended this practice doing a portrait drawing of Jake and then trying a more caricatured style like a comic book character. This was meant to express his personality and hint at what his place would be in a story as I am always thinking about comic book characters and potential storylines.







I used coloured pencil in my drawing as I liked the coloured effect of the conte in previous drawings. It also allows me to sketch out poses and shade before adding detail with pen.


I think this is a good way of creating characters and getting a sense of what shows someones personality so I will do more drawings where I exaggerate aspects of a person when doing character research in the future.