Bernie has posed many times for our Wednesday morning sketch group and he is always fun to sketch. He is a wonderful old gentleman who has a really craggy face and always looks miserable. One would think that getting a likeness of a face with this much character would be easier than a plain face that looks like everyone else but I don't find that to be the case. If you have a person with a very average face all you have to do is get the shapes relatively right and it looks like them. It looks like a lot of other people too but it looks like them. With a face like Bernie's you have to get all the odd shapes and nooks and crannies correct or it looks nothing like him. I like this sketch but it doesn't look like Bernie or at least it doesn't look the way I feel Bernie should look.
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