Experimental sketches

Continuing my portrait study, I made two more sketches of my peers while experimenting with media I'm using.

This is a sketch of Manuela, my classmate. It was made while she was working on her laptop while using charcoal on A4 paper. I mainly was adding pigment and not taking away as much, leaving the light spots untouched. Charcoal and pastel are one of my favourite media, although I have not much experience with it, I am looking forward to create more in the future. 

 

When Manuela left, Yusuf visited me and I asked him to so the same, I was inspired. I decided to try ink. I taped the borders and ink washed a thin layer of diluted ink, then I pushed myself to be loose and abstract because I wanted to do the opposite of what I did with Manuela, and put the darkest places first, such as hair, beard, clothes and added prominent facial features. After finishing with ink, I added white spots with white acrylic and I thought the borders were boring so I asked Yusuf to write his favourite quote in his mother language, he chose the "Hell is others"(1944) quote by Jean-Paul Sartre and wrote it in Moroccan Arabic language.