Finding the Hidden Beauty.

Whenever I get a chance to work with a live model, I ask their permission to take photographs even when they are not posing.

- Sookyi Lee

STAGE 1: I start drawing the outline of the overall shape with a light touch. I try to represent the main shapes as simply as possible and focus on the angles and the size relationships between shapes and features. At this point, I mostly use long, straight lines to get the right angles and use a vine charcoal to make it easy to erase any redundant lines as needed. I gradually move from larger shapes to smaller areas.

Many of my favorite works have been from those references I took during a model's break time, showing their natural postures and expressions. This drawing is from one such reference. Before I begin, I generate an ideal image of the subject in my head, which diverges in various ways from what is captured in the reference. I work on a thumbnail sketch to ensure that what I imagined will work in the actual drawing. During this process, I also choose the right material for the work based on the image.