Awesomeness: look at my teacher's sketch!

My friends often ask me since when I started to draw, and where. Well it was around Oct last year, after my trip to Paris. As I am celebrating my fourth month into the magical world of art, I am telling you something about my awesome art teachers.

They are a lovely artist couple. I met them via a friend of mine who is teaching fine arts in a local university. Last week I told them I am going to Paris again during Easter. I am planning to stay in the museums and draw the beautiful sculptures. My teachers hence decided to give me a crash course on drawing sculptures.

Here is my teacher's sketch showing me the techniques. And it took her only 15 mins.

Look at the lines. THE LINES!! They are dancing on the paper, floating in the air. This is so beautiful I am still admiring it as I am writing this entry.

If it feels familiar to you too, now look at this sketch by Raphael 500 years ago. 

The lines...THE LINES!!

\(*0*)/

A small twist - the very nerdy Woody Allen

So here is my latest sketch of Woody Allen. Also started with a photo (of course XD ), but I was trying not to make the sketch look too realistic. I was trying to add a little bit of my own interpretation of Woody Allen. What was it? hmmm....I always think...

Woody Allen is the nerdiest of all nerds LOL

The original photo was one that was taken recently (he is now 79), but in my sketch I tried to make him look timeless. No wrinkles, his skin is smooth as a baby, with cute chubby cheeks. As a result you can't really tell how old he is from the drawing. I just want him to look pure intelligent...and nerdy (to me they are synonyms :P)

I am recently obsessed with finding out what represents age. At first I thought it was the texture of the skin. But from this drawing I was proved wrong. This Woody Allen definitely does not look like twenty something. So what makes him look mature with this flawless skin? The emotions? The intelligence? Or something even more subtle?

If you're also wondering, yes thing like this does happen sometimes. The person who draws, is confused by her own drawing haha...O_o