Tag Archives: fast sketches of faces

Fourty-eight fast faces

Posted on December 30, 2015 by Ed Mostly

First twenty-nine drivers, sketched from the passenger seat while overtaking on the motorway. Their faces were only glimpsed in passing, so I had to quickly memorise the key lines, but they were always in full profile which helped simplify things! … Continue reading →

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Him off the Teevee

Posted on December 25, 2014 by Ed Mostly

TV is always a good source of faces to sketch, press pause and they’ll happily pose for as long as you need; I like the way the drawings tend towards caricature. There’s sometimes a bit of lens/screen distortion on archive clips, and I … Continue reading →

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