A close-up, basically because I liked the way his ear had been – well, dog-eared, I suppose, by the arm of his glasses. Once I’d ‘zoomed in’ that much, I enjoyed just focusing on the details.
It reminds me of the lovely Adam Gopnik article on drawing I mentioned in a long-ago post, where his drawing teacher recommends finding shapes in the model, rather than trying to draw the model, as a way around preconceived ideas of what people look like.
It certainly helps me loosen up and take the line for a bit of a walk, to paraphrase the great Klee.
