Friday Face OFF 3/20/26

 

Welcome To Friday Face OFF (FFO)

This is the place to show off your face art.

You know, ANY type of face, nature, the face of a flower, photography, drawings, paintings, AI. There just needs to be a face in your blog post, a link back to my blog and please use the image below. 

Thank you.

I've been looking for happy faces on line for FFO challenge. Watching a lot of portrait artists shows, I've noticed that not many want to draw or paint teeth and ask the sitters to smile closed mouth. I like drawing teeth, it challenges me. So, trying to find a face that I like with a big happy smile has been difficult. I guess I will have to draw that from imagination.

How is everyone doing on the challenge? 

 The show date is April 24th so you still have time to create a face with one or more of these expressions.

Happy, Sad, Tired, Surprised or anger.

For this week I have a young lady that was so fun to draw.

I don't have any true starts photos. I get into the zone and forget to take them.

From here, all sketched in and the shading begins.

A little more detail. 

Neck and shirt are lined in.

More detail with facial features. The lips are not this dark in real life.

As you know I work all over the page so next I started on the jacket.

After getting it all scratched in I smooth is out with an old paint brush.

If you do this, remember a bit of the graphite will be removed.

It's all about layering the graphite.

After awhile I get something like this.

And after many layers of some fixing here and there I ended up with this. 

I did change her blouse. I am happy with the tweedy texture on her coat. 

Here is the photo I worked from. I didn't quite get her expression. I made her eyes to wide and not enough puffiness. With that said, I do like her.

 

A few AI 

Ready for some features?

Take a few minutes to visit Kym. She creates amazing digital art. 

Dorte creates clever and fun art. Please take a look.

 

FFO Challenge April 24 

 Also join in with SITAR this Sunday Anything Art. 

That's it for me. 

Now show me your face

Nicole