This guy doesn't look like he would be featured in a circus, but that's because the bottom half of him is missing. I started to draw him on a long, narrow piece of paper, and he was so tall that I couldn't fit him in, if I stuck with the proportions I started with, so I just cut off his bottom half and made him into a portrait. He's the tall man, or the thin man, or the tall thin man, at the circus, coming in at something like 7ft8in. I already downsized him a bit below his neck, trying to make him fit, but by the time I got down to the feet, I knew it wouldn't work.
The reference photo, again, was an old one, so I decided to do him in monotone. I did use two colors—Raw Sienna and Burnt Umber—but that's it, other than the black Uniball pen I used to draw him.
I got his frame a little crooked (probably because he leaned too hard against it while I was drawing him), with the result that a smidgen of it got cut off at the bottom. Oh, well...just an exercise.
"Tall Man"
Uniball and Daler Rowney ink, on Fluid hot-press 140-lb. watercolor paper, about 6.5x9inches.
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