This drawing was taken from an image online, that i cropped to focus on the face. The woman on the original image was very muscular and i wanted to see if i could carry this from the body into the face. I left in the bulk and muscles in the shoulders and chest, like a little taster. Implying the idea of a less famine body shape. Which reminded me of something i read about Lucian Freud, about treating the head the same as any other limb. And that you can create a portraiture through the body. Freud said, “I realized that I very much wanted the figure not to be strengthened by the head. I wanted the likeness, the portraiture to come out of the figure.”(Feaver, 2005, P36/37)
In regards to Lucian Freud whenever he spoke about his work in relation to his depictions of people he would always refer to them as portraits, whether they be of full length nudes or of just of a persons face.
Because i like drawing/sketching, i personally think that my work is best strengthened in a negative/grey scale. I do appreciate the colours of flesh especially in the works created by Jenny Saville and Lucian Freud, where they have depicted the meaty flesh, allowing the paint to represent/ mimic the skins natural state. But for me personally i like the authenticity of black and white. It reminds me of old photographs.
