Back to Commedia mask designs.
I did these two sort of intending them to be female characters, but they don't look particularly gendered at all. They're done in oil pastel on the same long sketchpad that i used for my prior mask sketches. I did a hint of a wearer's lip/chin in these, and i think they kind of help with scale.
I'd forgotten how much i LOVE working in oil pastel, how fast it goes and how awesomely blendable and stripped-down it can be. It really lends itself well to these Commedia mask designs, in that, i need to be thinking in broad expressive planes and shapes, but the blending and smudging properties of the oil pastels give the simple shapes a lot of depth and interest.
I was just sort of farting around with facial variations, but i like these two so much, they might actually wind up being two of the real deals. We'll see....
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