8X10" Pencil
New year, new faces. I don't know how far I'll get with the project this year, but here's my latest prize. She's not really a new face to me. I've been watching Emma Thompson in movies for years...ever since my best friend introduced me to the talented actress. We've watched Emma in sophisticated roles such as Howard's End, Sense and Sensibility, and Remains of the Day. We saw her funny side in Junior, Peter's Friends, and Nanny McPhee. We watched her act alongside her mother in The Winter Guest, and of course, her most recent performance as a disturbed novelist with writer's block in Stranger than Fiction.
I'm not sure that this drawing captures Emma's likeness as well as I would've hoped, but I noticed a definite improvement over the first time I tried to draw her. Practicing with the Bargue drawings really helped me with the eyes, and working with several different degrees of pencils helped me with the shading. I'm really surprised how it all turned out, especially since I did the majority of the work in about 2 hours. I hope that my friend enjoys it as much as I do.