I haven't been told if I am correct or not about this sketch that a student made of someone famous and asked me to guess who it was. I enjoyed the way that she was so secretive about the portrait and didn't allow me to see it at all until it was time to go home. She ran out of the room with a smile on her face and I will give her an answer next week at our meeting. I am pretty sure I know who this is and perhaps you do as well.
She said she didn't work on it very long and she didn't use the "grid system" either and if either of these things are true I am already really impressed with her work, even if in the end I do get it wrong. After much deliberation I am going to guess that it is James Earl Jones. She had indicated that it is "someone famous from my time" and while that hurts my feeling a little bit since I am significantly younger than Mr. Jones, she is correct that if she had drawn someone famous to teenagers these days I would have very little chance of getting it correct. Perhaps her parents told her that James died recently and she decided to do this on her own.
The thing that makes me the most happy about this is that she didn't have to do this at all, she chose to do it. Also, she has great confidence in her skills now and just like most of the students that are in my free classes, she didn't know where to begin with any art that she might have attempted before entering my classes.
I hope I am correct and if I am, I am surprised that she even has any idea who James Earl Jones even is.
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