Pen Portraits
In my first art class at the University of San Francisco, Art Fundamentals, I was challenged to create portraits using different pens and strokes with those pens in order to get acquainted with the different effects I could create using such simple tools. All of these images were created on tracing paper, with a black and white print out of the portrait underneath for guidance
In this portrait, I used a small brush pen to create strokes the varied from the thick to thin to distinguish shadows and lights spots. Additionally, I made sure to hold my pen the same way the whole time in order to create strokes that all went in the same direction, and natural diagonal.
In this take on the portrait, I traced each line of the face with thin, simple strokes, only following the most important lines to create an image that was most heavy in white space yet still showed details in the face.
In my final rendition of this portrait, I decided to create very short, dynamic strokes to give the composition more complexity. I used a very small nibbed ben to create these energetic strokes and show the upmost detail
At the end, I decided to add in a new portrait, this time of Tom Cruz. In this take, I used a marker-like pen to create a composition that is completely made of dots. In the darker areas of the face, I create dots that were more close together and further apart in the lighter areas.
