Drawing Tuesday - portraits

 Reasons for portraits:

- catching a likeness

- showing the outer (or inner) life of the subject

- making a record of important people for posterity

Reasons for self-portraits:

- constant availability of sitter

- a certain fascination with mirrors...?

From Sue B - sending a drawing i did last year of a friend’s one-year old grandson, wearing his mum’s hat, from a photo

From Sue K -  Had my annual eye test on Monday & had an awful time trying on specs & taking awful selfies. Here’s the result!

From Joyce - I’ve gone for the easy option and sketched a “portrait “ of some leaves from the garden! 

From Judith - Portraits from photos, Judi Dench looking rather severe

From Gill - Wanted to try out a fine nib dip pen after looking at a Van Gogh portrait drawing.

From me - nothing fresh, despite good intentions.  "Making a cake for daddy" was drawn from a photo in July, and almost immediately revised with tracing part of the image, gluing paper over the bit that was no longer needed, and putting the tracing in place.