Week 12: Facial Expressions

Conte Crayon - 30 minutes

Here the mood of the model is expressed as boredom however, this is made much clearer through the head resting on the hands rather than in the eyes and mouth as a facial expression should be - here the body is doing most of the work to show the emotion.
There is some good representation of skin that has been forcibly wrinkled by the hand as you can see that it is being pushed up by the skin. You can also see this is different from the natural wrinkles such as those on the forehead. Weight has also been represented fairly successfully as it is clear the head is resting into the hands and not just balanced on it.
The hand has a number of problems; primarily the fact that it has sausage fingers and in reality they would be more structure and it would be more bent to hold the face and less curved. Areas of it have been clearly over worked which draws your attention to it. The hand probably wouldn't look as bad if the left side had not been so intensely outlined.
The outline of the side profile is represented quite well as it shows features unique to the individual such as the bend in the nose. Depth has also been shown very subtly by the small detail of the eyebrow that is only just visible however, this tiny detail helps show that there is something on the other side and that it is not 2D. On the other hand the area between the nose and the mouth looks slightly too long and would probably not be like this in reality.