Leaving Your Comfort Zone

Everyone has subjects that they enjoy and excel at drawing. This week, we will leave our comfort zone. The assignment is to draw someone of a different race. Pay close attention to the features that your brain would use in a black & white photograph to determine the ethnicity of the subject. The trick will be to render them realistically so that they may be properly identified. Avoid creating caricature-like drawings with exaggerated features. This should be as realistic as you can make it. Your subject can be male of female, adult of child, although you may want to avoid going too far out of your comfort zone in your choice. If you are not used to drawing children, for example, stick with an adult.