Tom’s Daily Coronacature- Keira Knightly!

May 17th, 2020 | Posted in Daily Coronacature

Here’s my Keira Knightly. She’s another subject that looks deceptively easy at first but if you exaggerate certain features they fight other features that are also important. For example, Keira has really strong cheekbones, and a “hollow” in her outside jaw mass on each side of her mouth. She also has a really wide jaw that is very angular for a woman, an it has a lot of mass within her face shape. That creates a wide face shape. But she also has a pretty tall forehead. It’s basically impossible to exaggerate both the width AND tallness of a face shape, because those exaggerations cancel each other out. I went with the mass in her law and as a result I had to reduce her forehead mass.

Her eyes are a major focus, especially with the very deep creases over her upper eyelids. They give her a dark, deep sort of eye that is emphasized by the cosmetics she uses to give her the “smokey” eye look with the dar underlid area. She has a soft, parted, swollen lip kind of mouth and a bit of an underbite.

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  1. Rob Martin says:
    May 18, 2020 at 1:12 am

    Tom. Im struck stupid.
    In 1989, I was a sophomore in College at the University of Stevens Point in WI. Every summer starting with my sixth, my dad took me and my closest friend to Great America. I was there from the beginning, and I would beg my dad, when he was still forced to drive us there at age 14, to wait so I could watch this man draw. I would’ve stayed for hours, who needed the roller coasters. In 1989, I would sit across from that same guy; Gary Fasen, in a hotel room, with a sketch book full of caricatures. I had no training, only the lessons I got watching him. He talked to me about structure, and recommended I get a book by a man named Hogarth. I needed to understand structure. He told me not to use my blending stump as a crayon, talked about efficiency of line, and the wasted mess of a “sketch.” “Be confident with your pencil, and where there is heavy shadow, indicate it with a heavier line. I bought a mechanical pencil that day. I didn’t make the cut before life moved rapidly on.

    Now, here I sit… a man of twice as many years, a father, a husband, an entrepenuer, and I am struck stupid, because I JUST… not more than 10 minutes ago… found out that; the man I spent the best part of my life trying to emulate, is no more. I missed it. I take my kids to Six Flags, and ask the artists where Gary is. No one had an answer… now I know why.

    They say never seek out your heroes, and Im literally in tears that I didn’t. Summer just lost a lot of its luster for me. In 2005… I was planning my wedding. I was enjoying the trappings of financial success. Nothing was further from my mind than the summers 1988-1993.

    It’s 1:07 am, and I don’t know what else to say except; Im sorry to everyone who lost Gary that day. I still have the sketchbook he made the notes in. Im looking at it right now, yearning for the opportunity to tell the younger me to try harder… don’t give up …. he isn’t trying to bring you down… he’s CHALLENGING you… TRY HARDER!!

    My best to you and yours. Please pass on my condolences to his loved ones. I know Im 15 years too late, but it wouldn’t feel right not to offer them.

    Rob

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