Renaissance Prince - character study
graphite sketch with "non-photo" (yea right) pencil for guidelines
I thought I'd try drawing Phantom in his dauphin stage (dauphin = fancy for "crown prince" =P) actually posed as royalty often have been for portraits. So here he sort of is, as if this portrait were to hang on a hall in a castle of sorts. He's very Renaissance in a few elements, in his rather soft feminine face (well, as he always does), but also in his contraposto stance and head turned over an arm crossing the torso (Michelangelo loved doing this, especially in one of my favorite Jesus statues that he did). Phantom may look a bit fruity, but if you try to imagine this as a Michelangelo sculpture or maybe even a Leonardo sketch, it has it's place.
graphite sketch with "non-photo" (yea right) pencil for guidelines
I thought I'd try drawing Phantom in his dauphin stage (dauphin = fancy for "crown prince" =P) actually posed as royalty often have been for portraits. So here he sort of is, as if this portrait were to hang on a hall in a castle of sorts. He's very Renaissance in a few elements, in his rather soft feminine face (well, as he always does), but also in his contraposto stance and head turned over an arm crossing the torso (Michelangelo loved doing this, especially in one of my favorite Jesus statues that he did). Phantom may look a bit fruity, but if you try to imagine this as a Michelangelo sculpture or maybe even a Leonardo sketch, it has it's place.