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The missing link
Inspired by Yolsaffbridge's comment that I should keep practicing drawing Professor X until he is Patrick Stewart.
Okay, so you've got Patrick Stewart as Professor X at age 60.
(An unnecessarily severe rendering.)
And you've got James McAvoy as Professor X at, what, age 30 or so.
Fun drawing challenge of the day: what is the middle stage between these two? e.g. Professor X at age 45?
I drew the above from reference photos of their respective actors, trying not to let one influence the other in anyway (except to choose similar head positions and draw at the same scale). I drew the below by laying them on top of each other and tracing - keeping the places where they were the same, and where they differed, choosing either one feature or the other, or a median between them.
McAvoy and Stewart really do have similar face, eye, and nose shapes. They raise different eyebrows. I guess Professor X can do either one. I went with Stewart's bald head, assuming that as soon as Charles starts to lose his hair he'll just shave the lot because he is classy and vain like that.
Well, what do you know, it's Professor X. GOOD JOB MOVIES.
A real challenge would be doing this for Erik. Ian McKellan and Michael Fassbender really don't look alike at all, that I can see, so I have no idea what that would end up looking like.
Okay, so you've got Patrick Stewart as Professor X at age 60.
(An unnecessarily severe rendering.)
And you've got James McAvoy as Professor X at, what, age 30 or so.
Fun drawing challenge of the day: what is the middle stage between these two? e.g. Professor X at age 45?
I drew the above from reference photos of their respective actors, trying not to let one influence the other in anyway (except to choose similar head positions and draw at the same scale). I drew the below by laying them on top of each other and tracing - keeping the places where they were the same, and where they differed, choosing either one feature or the other, or a median between them.
McAvoy and Stewart really do have similar face, eye, and nose shapes. They raise different eyebrows. I guess Professor X can do either one. I went with Stewart's bald head, assuming that as soon as Charles starts to lose his hair he'll just shave the lot because he is classy and vain like that.
Well, what do you know, it's Professor X. GOOD JOB MOVIES.
A real challenge would be doing this for Erik. Ian McKellan and Michael Fassbender really don't look alike at all, that I can see, so I have no idea what that would end up looking like.