day 22 - another look at Phil

Since I was disappointed with the portrait aspect of yesterdays full torso drawing of Phil Mickelson, I made another effort today going back to the face only.

I thought this would be easy but I fought it almost the entire way. One of the fun aspects of this drawing adventure is that at the pace of a portrait drawing a day I don't have time to just bang out another if things aren't working quite right. Unless you 'quit' a sketch in about the first 15 minutes you are kind of committed to making the thing you started work out.

I'm not so sure tonight's 'worked out' all that well either. What is it with drawing Phil?? Is it the pressure of knowing that if I don't get it right, my wife (a lifelong fan - not just because of his golf) will be all over me??
I'm blaming that for now!

This is a pretty good drawing but falls just a little short from looking like Phil Mickelson. I actually looks a little more like him in this photo of the drawing than the drawing itself. It seems that sometimes the digital camera can be your friend and make your art look better and sometimes it accentuates the shortcomings.

 Looking at this the next morning with fresh eyes I believe I saw the problem. Nothing new in that! Often after drawing a couple of hours late at night the eye of the artist misses details that fresh eyes would have caught.  I'll share the observation of the problem here in tomorrow's post.