I've been trying to understand the female face over the past few days- this is not some sort of mars and Venus experiment but rather to better understand how to improve my drawings. The problem for me has been trying to draw Nicole Kidman from the front. She has a a very pronounced jaw line which every time I tried to capture resulted in her face becoming very masculine. Now Ms Kidman may be many things but masculine is not one of them. So why were my drawings producing such results? In an effort to answer this I traced Ms Kidman's outline in brushes and examined the result. The most striking thing for me was to notice the relationship between the jaw line and the eyes. In many of my drawings the eyes were too hard and perhaps not big enough. The result of this was to make the jaw line more pronounced Nd therefore more masculine. Well that is my analysis at the moment and I will only tell if this is true by applying the lessons and seeing what come out. One final thing is this drawing. It is a very simple traced outline of Ms Kidman's face which I have shaded and turned into an original image which doesn't look much like the original. So is this plagiarism or is it an original art work? I think it is the latter, I would say that wouldn't I, but the reason for this is that whilst has the outline of well known face the resultant work bares nor resemblance to the original photo. In short I have tried to make a likeness of the person rather than the photo of the person. Not sure what this all means but it is my excuse and I'm stick in to it. 
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