Heads and Hands Class Field Trip

John Juan · Post by **John Juan** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 5:40 am

Hello everyone! I went to Cal Berkley today to sketch from some castings of famous ancient Greek statues they are restoring. Here are two portrait studies I did.
-Statues make great models!

-John Tallacksen

emma · Post by **emma** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 5:06 pm

Great tones you've got there. Yeah, statues aren't going to look at you strangely and walk quickly away, or complain, or really even... move.

Thorsten · Post by **Thorsten** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 8:09 pm

Indeed, they really did a good job ... but only if the sketchee is doing a good one, too

Seems like you have been a perfect team!

Lindsay · Post by **Lindsay** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 4:13 am

John, these are really rich drawings. Lovely proportions and shadings.
Lindsay
http://straightlinesout.blogspot.com

John Juan · Post by **John Juan** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 5:14 pm

Thanks for the kind words everyone

Mike Thompson · Post by **Mike Thompson** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 11:33 pm

Beautiful pieces.

Wind · Post by **Wind** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 5:38 pm

Beautiful work! Nice shading!
Did you use conte, charcoal or graphite?

Wind

John Juan · Post by **John Juan** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 6:19 pm

Both are only graphite on toned paper.

Part of the assignment was to finish the drawings over Thanksgiving break; so I added some more structure to Parocles' form.

Thanks again to everyone who left me comments.
-John

John Juan · Post by **John Juan** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 6:27 pm

Here are some more portraits I did of live models in the same class. All of these are charcoal on newsprint paper. Some have conte mixed in as-well. The last one was a quick 2 minute sketch.

-John