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Fist Against the Jaw
Fist Against the Jaw. 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. A young adult man with thick dark swept-back hair and strong dark eyebrows, turned three-quarter on with the head facing the viewer, one hand raised in a loose closed fist resting against the jaw and neck, beaded and leather bands at the wrist. Fully clothed in a short-sleeved collared shirt in dark blue printed with a small repeating white floral motif; non-sexual, decorous, sober portrait study. Nervous angular broken black ink contour line describing the jaw, neck, shoulder, forearm and the closed fist with exaggerated bony knuckles, drawn with wiry precision and deliberate breaks in the line. Render the patterned shirt as a flat hard-edged decorative field of blue with the repeating white motif drawn graphically across it, no soft fabric modelling, set against bare paper. Thin patchy gouache and watercolour washes on the face, neck and hand in warm ochre and umber with cold green and dull brick red accents at the cheek, jaw and knuckles. Dark hair as heavy angular faceted masses. Remove the grey studio backdrop entirely; large areas of untouched cream paper as the ground, mannered elongated forearm, tense composed wary expression, raw and expressive. NEGATIVE: (none)
SETTINGS
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NOTE
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