Head Starts

Civil War Face

@ 9" x 7"

Pastel

Casey Klahn

Progress

Detail

Charcoal, Conte and White Chalk

@ 8" x 12"

Casey Klahn

Okay.  I fixed the eye placement and the lip.  It is fascinating how once good abilities can evade me after too many years out of practice.  Figures and heads require lots of practice, and then there's the art part, too.

This is done on newsprint.

Head Games

Sketch, Head

Copied from a book

@ 9" x 7"

Charcoal and Chalk

Casey Klahn

This image was one of four 10-minute sketches of heads that I did the other evening to celebrate cleaning my studio. I was reading Drawing magazine, which is one of my guilty pleasures.  The idea here was the head as a cube in perspective.  I am also guilty of taking this from Ned Mueller, as I saw his great drawing in one of my coffee table art books.  Consequently, it will never be for sale.