Both Hands at the Face
Both Hands at the Face. A clothed portrait study after Schiele: nervous broken contour, patchy gouache wash, and large areas of bare paper left as the ground.
How this was made
This piece began with a photograph and a written instruction. Both are kept, so the record is complete rather than flattering.
THE PROMPT AND THE SETTINGS
PROMPT
POSITIVE: Repaint this photograph as an Egon Schiele male portrait drawing, Vienna c. 1914, in the manner of his clothed half-length portraits of men with raised hands. A young adult man with short dark hair, a thin moustache and small goatee, wearing dark aviator sunglasses, facing the viewer with both arms raised and both hands lifted level with his face, fingers curled and splayed, one hand touching the frame of the glasses, a black digital watch on one wrist. Fully clothed in a plain black long-sleeved top with a long checked scarf in bold black and off-white blocks hanging in two vertical strips down his chest; non-sexual, decorous, sober portrait study. Nervous angular broken black ink contour line describing the jaw, neck, shoulders, both raised forearms and both hands with exaggerated bony knuckles, elongated splayed fingers and visible tendons, drawn with wiry precision and deliberate breaks in the line. Render the black top as a dense flat black-grey graphic mass with hard faceted folds, and the scarf as a bold flat hand-drawn checkerboard of black and bare cream paper blocks, irregular and graphic rather than photographic. The sunglasses as two hard flat dark ovals. Thin patchy gouache washes on the face, neck, forearms and hands in warm brown, umber and ochre with cold green and dull brick red accents at the cheek, jaw and knuckles. Remove the mottled studio backdrop entirely; large areas of untouched cream paper as the ground, mannered elongated arms, tense wary expression carried in the mouth and the hands, raw and expressive. NEGATIVE: (none)
SETTINGS
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NOTE
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