Multitudes #2: Personalities

Doodling in Public

 To learn to draw faces, I start with drawing shapes of heads across a page. Then for each,  I add features, usually starting with the eyes.  My initial idea was to try to draw faces with each with a different emotion.  However, very quickly,  I lost control. Or rather, because I don’t have a clear idea of how to produce a particular facial expression, the noses, eyes and mouths began forming their own expressions. The faces emerged with their own distinct personalities and expressions. If  I had more control or skill I could make the faces conform to the expression I had in mind.  But I found it much more interesting to see how slight changes in the shape of the eyes, the tilt of eyebrows, the particular configuration of the mouth, create expressions I couldn’t have deliberately produced.  In art,  what emerges unplanned, is usually more interesting to me than my intentions.