Rick?

This is Model #15, and his name, innocuously enough, is Rick. He has the tragic face of a 16th century saint...or else perhaps someone who should be named Mulazim, which has the meaning "tenacious, persisting" in Arabic, because his face is so sorrowful, he must have endured much.

Whatever his name or story, he was the perfect model for the day's exercise, which was creating contrast with warm and cool colors. The teacher encouraged us to exaggerate those qualities by picking complementary colors, and Rick's face was such a canvas of bruises with his concerned gaze and the deep shadows both over and under his eyes that I couldn't resist giving him a bit more of a lime green cast than was probably warranted, and using the complementary purple to full effect.

Even so, I didn't quite capture the devastation in his gaze. But here is my best effort.

#30Faces30Days—"Rick N." on Sktchy

Uniball pen and watercolor in Bee sketchbook