Portrait of Dizzy Gilespie playing horn - drawing in pencil

Inktober Day 19: Dizzy

By DoctorPlatypus | Doctor Platypus | 21 Oct 2020


The prompt for October 19 was "Dizzy" and I thought about stuff that spins and stuff that makes you drunk, and I wasn't that interested in any of those things, so I went for this instead:

Portrait of Dizzy Gilespie playing horn - drawing in pencil

I think I am starting to get the hang of hands, although these are still not very good - just I think a bit better than previous hands I have drawn. I also like the way his face came out - I feel like I could have added a lot more shading and stuff, but I don't think it was needed. In this case, maybe less is more. let me know if you disagree :D

It was really hard getting the interaction between his hands and his horn. Naturally, I picked the hardest hands I could find, because hands are so easy (ahem #sarcasm).  In any case, I think there's some work to be done there, but I am not certain I am skilled enough yet to do it. Practice practice. 

Weirdly, I think the thing that needs most work is the sweater. In my sketchbook it looks all right, more or less, but photographs don't lie, and all blown up big on the monitor like this, his sweater looks very flat, especially compared to his face, which seems excitingly active and round to me.

Lots to learn and fun to learn it!

Thanks for looking at my pictures :D

 

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Current projects: writing a literary history book about Victorian and Edwardian fiction as successor to the medieval dream vision genre. Learning to draw. Slooooowly learning the fancier ins and outs of the roll20 VTT.


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