This graphite pencil drawing ‘Sans Titre - 26-10-18’ is my interpretation of the smashing facial features of Angie Dickinson. One time I was looking at the reference picture of her at Studio Brugman. My colleague Gilbert said her face looked almost chiseled like a statue and I think he’s right. Often I search for old pictures like that. Generally I find them so much better than many contemporary ones. That’s due to the dramatic tonal bandwith that let the portrayed stand out in a sound pose. Almost like a chiseled statue so to speak. Therefor, in general I chose to be inspired by these 1930s art deco-like styled photographs. Contemporary pictures just won’t do for me. Next to this, from a tonal point of view these photos match my monochrome moods in graphite much better.
Graphite Concrete
Now you understand my motives, my job was to poor the facial features into a sort of graphite concrete. At the same timeI wanted to preserve the beautiful female features of a great star. The way I did just that is by drawing smooth tonal gradients within straight stuctures. It’s the same as what I did in Talullah Bankhead’s portrait. In addition I also added some basic geometric figures because I saw them see fit right in. So there they are, the rectangle, circle and triangular shapes. They make up for the construction of the universe entire. My monogram fitted right in her lapel’s jacket. There wasn’t much room for to place is elswhere anyway. Looking back now it’s completed I am quite surprized a clear resemblance can come out of applying sheer geometrics.
Graphite pencil drawing (Pentel 0.5 mm, 3B) on Canson Bristol paper (21 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm) - A4 format)
Artist: Corné Akkers
