Week 10 Directed Study

            This weeks directed study was about Colour and Tone in skin.

          For drawing 1 an array of different soft pastel colous were used in order to draw the womans portrait.
         Soft pastel colours that were used include black, 4 tonal variations of brown (light to dark) sometimes mixed with purple or black for more darker skin tones and pale pink colour for highlights (such as on the nose, forehead, ans cheeks). A mixure of pink and light brown (and a hint of purple) were used to form the lips and pink mixed with purple for the upper palpebral groove. White was only used for the sclera and the teeth. The most difficult parts were areas that required detail, as those areas needed to be approached with extreme caution, especially when 2 or more colours were needed (mouth, eyes).

1. African woman (face portrait)

             As opposed to the above drawing (1), drawing (2) appeared to be more difficult to process. The pallete used in this case included colours of red, orange, pale pink, and bright turquoise.
Blending red with pink gave warmer colours that were used to cover the eyelids and cheeks(indicators of where the bloods circulates).
             Mixing purple with red was used to create shadows in some areas (around the nose, eyes and chin) and the bright turquoise used for highlights and was applied in places to make skin tones pop (cheeks, nose, chin and lips).

2. White female (face protrait)