charcoal study

This is a charcoal drawing done from a photo I pulled off the internet randomly; I don’t have a link to the photographer’s site anymore, if I find it, I’ll post a link, it’s probably plagiarism to use it but I promise not to publish it for any reason. I did this for a class assignment,  (for a head drawing class at the Academy of Art) chosen for the “Rembrandt lighting” on the face.  A term to denote the triangle lighting on the cheek and the nice contrast of light the dark that Rembrandt used over and over again. Our next assignment is a Rembrandt copy.

I like the spooky doll like quality of this woman’s face, her eyes really are this far apart, the spacing doesn’t quite look right, but it’s pretty right on to the photos actual proportions.