Drawing a face with blending colors is proving a lot more difficult then I thought.

Tonight I had an idea about how to do it and I drew five sketches (of which you can find three on Flickr) before I gave up. I watched some television and went to bed.

But lying in my bed I kept thinking about drawing faces. I had some new ideas which I was trying out in my mind. In the end I decided that I might as well get out of bed and try it for real.

Face blending color 5th sketch

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This sketch isn’t to bad. The colors are quit good. But the proportions are off. The distance between the inside corner and the outside corner of an eye should be the same as the distance between the inside corner of one eye and the inside corner of the other eye. This eye is to small as compared to rest of the face.

The problem with drawing a color face have to do with the synthesis between sight and touch.

I’ve discovered that when I concentrate on a drawing of a face I can use my imaginary hand to feel the shape of the face.

When I’m drawing the face and I use the right colors I also can feel the shape. But at the same time the pencil in my hand is moving over a flat surface. The contrast between what I seeing/feeling and what I feel with my hand is very confusing.

The other problem has to do with my memory. I can almost see the eyes in the drawing looking at me before I put a pencil to paper. So I’m tempted to start with the eyes. But when I do I get so distracted by the eyes that I can’t draw anything else. The two drawings I didn’t post only consist of a few lines around the eyes.

No! The colors are all wrong. When I wrote this last night at 2.30 AM the colors felt right but looking at them this morning I saw that they were wrong. I didn’t understand why though.

After thinking about it all day I do know what is wrong and why. I’ve also some ideas about how to use this in a new drawing.

But that will have to wait a few days. I also had some other ideas for pictures I want to draw and I will start with those.

Business is slow at my work so I took the rest of the week off. That’s a good thing because the first drawing will probably take a lot of work.

I’ll start with figuring out how many shades of purple I can make…