art wed.

[jenthompson]

I bought a daguerreotype off ebay this month and her face is so haunting that I thought I'd use it for a drawing. I started off doing a photorealistic copy of it, and then I thought, what's the point? I already have a photograph that is a million times cooler than my drawing would be. So then I tried to convert it into a more expressive style. I really love expressive, half-finished drawings. I'm not sure I love THIS drawing, but it still was good to practice.

Comments

[guen-the-cat.livejournal.com]

I just love that Jennifer. I love her eyes.

[lorelei01.livejournal.com]

Well *I* love this drawing ;-) Great job!

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

That's beautiful! You're really good at sketching.

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

I love daguerreotypes, they all seem to be haunted. Like they captured a part of the persons soul for all eternity.

Have you seen the Library of Congress's collection?
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/dagquery.html

[madamemodiste.livejournal.com]

Whoa! That looks amazing!

[mala-14.livejournal.com]

That's beautiful! I love how the realistic eyes stand out from the rest of sort of sketchy drawing. Very cool.

[christylee.livejournal.com]

Very cool! I suck at drawing faces

[green-martha.livejournal.com]

This is beautiful ! I love sketches, too... I do a lot too much of them, actually ^^

[peacockdress.livejournal.com]

Beautiful. You bring such class to my f-list. :)

[cathyr19355.livejournal.com]

I like it. It strikes me as almost steampunk, for some reason, possibly because it's clearly of a woman in Victorian costume but is done in a vaguely SF-nal style.