Finally getting around to posting the in-between parts of the Smiley & Karla portraits.
THIS PREVIOUS POST shows the earliest point I took a picture of. I had blocked out the positions for the heads and had sketched in the basic negative spaces on Patrick Stewart’s face.
This was the next stage —
Finding the planes on Alec Guinness’ face was harder, so I just very lightly marked the negative areas as a starter.
The photo I was working from for Guinness’ face was very dark, and the shape of his hat was not clear. The amusing thing is that although I’d been watching both Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley’s People while working on this sketch, for some reason, I thought Smiley had a bowler hat, not a fedora. Hence it is blocked out more roundly at this point in the process.
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