Progress: Artist Copy

This week was particularly challenging because I had to restart my entire project. My original got lost so I had to re-resize and start working on the mark all over again, however, it was not too bad because I started on a different portion and worked on some completely different marks. Rembrandt uses a LOT of hatching and cross hatching, but also utilizes a lot of negative space as well.

Right now what I'm struggling with the most is the number of hatch marks, and the angle I have to draw them at. Scaling up a pen and ink drawing means that I have to compensate for the density of the lines by drawing more, since I cant just make the lines bigger. The other issue is that he uses a lot of long fluid lines, but drawing them on such a large scale makes it difficult to keep it as one smooth line. To fix these problems what I've been doing is making one line out of multiple, and trying my hardest to make them look like one line rather than multiple.

Overall I'm really happy with this project so far, and I think that I'm getting a good understanding of Rembrandt's mark in order to have my own portrait look similar.