100 Heads Drawing Project
When I saw this 6000 Heads post on Drawn.ca, I was blown away by the variety of works, and the lack of preciousness in this exercise. As a tapestry weaver, I feel like I have become ruled by extensive planning and incredibly lengthy projects. With these sketches, I can just throw something together. It’s pretty freeing. and scary. But I’m enjoying the process, and parts of the drawings. I think as I go, I will start to like more of them.
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- Head #1 Oct 15 2007 - I've embarked on a project to sketch 100 heads, inspired by a Drawn.ca post drawn.ca/2007/10/10/6000-heads/
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- Head #2 Oct 16 2007 - #2 From a smiling picture of Naomi Klein on The Hour's website.
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- Head #3 Oct 17 2007 from some picture on the 'net
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- Head #4 Oct 19, 2007 This is a self-portrait. Yes, the note at the bottom does read "Drunk."
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- Head #5 Oct 20 2007
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- Head #6 Oct 21, 2007 I was once compared to an elf. Maybe this drawing is a little proof.
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- Head #7 Oct 23, 2007 In this one, I'm auditioning for some courage, but it turns out I had in me all along.
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- Head #8 Oct 24, 2007 Self-portrait in my favorite sunglasses that aren't dark enough to not look silly when worn out of doors. Does anyone know of a product out there to darken the lenses on $14 sunglasses?
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- Head #9 Oct 29, 2007 A very quick, late night sketch.
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- Head #10 Nov 9, 2007 Not enough sleep.
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- Head #11 Nov 10, 2007
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- Head #12 Nov 10, 2007 Title options: "Defiant chin" "Study in red wine and red crayon" "I'm starting to like this drawing thing"
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- Head #13 Nov 11, 2007 Self-Portrait Continuous Line Drawings. Very, very addictive. Like Gin, and The Tiger Lillies. All three together. That's what I call a Long Weekend.
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- Head #14 Nov 11, 2007 Self-Portrait Continuous Line Drawings. That's what I call a Long Weekend.
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- Head #15 Nov 11, 2007 Self-Portrait Continuous Line Drawings.
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- Head #16 Nov 11 2007 Self-Portrait Continuous Line Drawings.
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- Head #17 Nov 11 2007 Self-Portrait Continuous Line Drawings.
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- Head #18 Nov 11 2007 Self portrait
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- Head #19 Nov 11 2007
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- Head #20 Nov 13 2007 self-portrait in ball point pen
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- Head #21 Nov 13 2007 study in jiffy marker
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- Head #22 Nov 13, 2007 from my head, not of my head.
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- Head #23 Nov 14 2007 Self-portrait of me pretending to be Cindy Sherman pretending to be Patti Smith.
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- Head #24 Nov 15, 2007 from Hensen & Bowie's Labyrinth... gathering inspiration for the Masquerade
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- Head #25 Nov 16 2007 This is a sketch of a plaster cast of my face. Even though it kinda looks like a sleeping man, there is some me in there.... so does that make this a self-portrait?
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- Head #26 Nov 20, 2007
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- Head #27B Nov 21 2007 alternate titles for these three sketches: "Two continuous line drawings and a sketch"
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- Head #27A Nov 21 2007 alternate titles for these three sketches: "It's really late and cold, and I have to draw something tonight" "Blue Pencil crayon is the only thing sharp enough to draw with and I can't find the pencil sharpener. Did I mention it's really late and cold?"
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- Head #27C Nov 21 2007 alternate titles for these three sketches: "study in hoodie - old apartments aren't very well insulated" "yes, I am uploading all the heads I'm sketching. see?"
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- Head #28 Nov 22 2007 Progression of Silly Danes
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- Head #28+29 Nov 22 2007 Progression of Silly Danes
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- Head #28+29+30 Nov 22 2007 Progression of Silly Danes
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- Head #28+29+30+31 Nov 22 2007 Progression of Silly Danes
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- Head #32 Nov 24 2007 A quick sketch in a restaurant, not looking too intently at my subject. A little caricaturish, but she really is all eyes and smiles.
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- Head #33 Nov 27, 2007 Continuous Line Drawing or... channeling my inner Hatchet Face
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- Head #34 Nov 27 2007 Continuous Line Drawing "contemplating to the left"
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- Head #35 Nov 27 2007 Continuous Line Drawing
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- Head #36 Nov 28 2007 Continuous Line Drawing with Felt Pen
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- Head #37 Nov 28 2007 Line Drawing with Felt Pen
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- Head #38 Nov 28 2007 Continuous Line Drawing with Felt Pen
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- Head #39 Nov 28 2007 Continuous Line Drawing with three colours of Felt Pen
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- Head #40 Dec 1 2007 Continuous Line Drawing
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- Head #41 Dec 1 2007 Live Long and Prosper
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- Head #42 Dec 1 2007
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- Head #43 Dec 1 2007 Continuous Line Drawing
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- Head #44 (detail) Dec 1 2007
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- Head #44 Dec 1 2007 Self-portrait of the artist as a young adult novel cover
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- Head #45 Dec 2 2007 self-portrait while listening to The Cure. "Do I listen to pop music because I’m depressed, or am I depressed because I listen to pop music?" - Rob Fleming (from Nick Hornby's High Fidelity)
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- Head #46 Dec 2 2007 Self-Portrait with PhotoBooth done in an Artist Trading Card format 3-1/2 x 2-1/2"
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- Head #47 Dec 4 2007 gettin' close to 1/2 way there!
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- Head #48 Jan 7 2008 Self-portrait in continuous line drawing. Ok, ok... my pen came up off the page one or two times. And I know, she doesn't look very happy, but don't let that grimace fool you. Even though she spent half her holidays in bed with the flu, and she had to go back to a full day at work today, hopped up on way too much cold medication, she's really happy to be drawing again. No, really. She really is. No, I mean it. Seriously. um, ok. Fool-proof way to show you she's happy? :) ..... emoticon ....
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- Head #49 Jan 8 2008 This drawing was done with a black brush point pen. my first foray into brush point pen. I was so sure that the shading lines would be totally to dark and thick, but to my surprise... no! They do read as shadow. I'm looking forward to playing with this...
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- Head #50!! Jan 9, 2008 As frightening as it was, I plunged in and did a full-on drawing, not just a sketch! It is #50, after all... halfway there.
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- Head #51 Jan 22 2008 Continuous line drawing, self-portrait in a mirror
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- Head #52 Jan 22 2008 self-portrait in a mirror, red pen drawing with Staedtler triplus fineliner
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- Head #53 Jan 29, 2008 Self-portrait with Photobooth Stretch Effect, brown Staedtler triplus fineliner
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- Head #54 Jan 30, 2008 I'm trying a new thing with this whole self-portrait 100 Heads thing - playing around with Photobooth weirdo effects, and then drawing those crazy pictures! It's a super fun departure...
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- Head #55 Jan 31 2008 Self-portrait with Photobooth Effects, brown Staedtler triplus fineliner Add a caption Head #53 Self-portrait with Photobooth Stretch Effect, brown Staedtler triplus fineliner
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- Head #56 Feb 2 2008 Self-portrait with Photobooth Effects, blue Staedtler triplus fineliner
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- Head #57 Feb 2 2008 Self-portrait with Photobooth Effects, black pen
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- Head #58 Feb 27, 2008 Pink in honour of Bully Day (or rather Anti-Bully day)
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- Head #59 March 2, 2008 Life Drawing session
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- Head #60 March 2 2008 Self-portrait with Photobooth distorted photo
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- Head #61 March 23 2007 Nose.
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- Head #62 April 13 2008 Self-portrait in Photobooth
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- Head #63 April 13 2008 Self-portrait in Photobooth, continuous line drawing. Apparently I was feeling saucy...
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- Head #64 April 13 2008 Self-portrait in Photobooth, continuous line drawing.
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- Head #65 April 13 2008 Self-portrait in Photobooth, continuous line drawing.
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- Head #66 April 14, 2008 It's a creamscicle kind of day... sunny and bright, but a the chill will freeze your brain!
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- Head #67 April 19, 2008 SO not impressed with the whole being sick thing.
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- Head #68 May 26, 2008 Long time no see... (aka: again with the nose challenge! :P)
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- Head #69 May 26, 2008 continuous line drawing, self-portrait
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- Head #70 May 26, 2008 continuous line drawing, self-portrait
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- Head #71 Aug. 3, 2008 very rusty continuous line drawing + inking
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- Head #72 Sept. 17 2008 Continuous line self-portrait New House = more art. That is the equation and the rule
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- Head #73 Sept. 18 2008 Sharpie self-portrait (um, yes, this is in the spirit of uploading them all. I really do need to do that '100 schnozzes' series to get some practice. damn.... lol)
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- Head #74 Sept. 18 2008 Jen needs to buy more highlighters
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- Head #75 Oct. 6 2008 self-portrait
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- Head #76 Oct. 6 2008 Continuous line self-portrait
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- Head #77 Oct. 6 2008 They're coming to get me, Barbara...
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- Head #78 Oct. 6 2008 Sharpie self-portrait
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- Head #79 Oct. 6 2008 self-portrait
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- Head #80 Oct. 7 2008 continuous line drawing, self-portrait
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- Head #81 - December 28, 2008 Hallowe'en '08 - about to be beheaded, or debrained at least!
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- Head # 82 - December 28, 2008 New Haircut & boots from self-portrait photobooth portrait, Oct. '08
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- Head #83 March 5, 2009 Self-portrait in night-time window. Go figure, setting up the new studio has inspired me to keep drawing. yipeee! gettin' the rusty hand going...
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- Head # 84 March 5 2009 - self portrait as anime character
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- Head #85 March 5 2009 same window reflection, this time in yarn.
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- Head #86 March 5 2009 getting closer, and can't. stop. drawing. (there's graphite fingerprints all over my keyboard. oops. :$)
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- Head #87 March 5 2009 Take on Me... Tribute to Ah-ha.
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- Head #88 - March 11, 2009 quick sketchy thing
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- Head #89 March 11 2009 Good ol' brown ultra fine point Sharpie.
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- Head #90 March 11 2009
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- Head #91 June 5 2009 first one with the specs
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- Head #92 June 5 2009 Self-portrait with Photobooth distortion. No, I don't really look like this. Well, unless ya cross me
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- Head #93 July 1 2009 (Drawn on quick spec from a twitter request)
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- Head #94 July 23 2009 Continuous line drawing in mirror
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- Head #95 July 23 2009 Self portrait in mirror
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- Head 96 July 29 2009 Self portrait in Photobooth
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- Head #97 July 29 2009 Self portrait in Photobooth
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- Head #98 July 29 2009 Self portrait with self portrait in Photobooth
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- Head #99 Sept 15 2009
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- Head #100 Jan 15 2010
[...] students drawing 100 heads, she decided to do her own. It’s mostly her story to tell, so just click through to Jen Hiebert’s drawings and check them out. These things are seriously [...]
Wow, I absolutely love your 100 heads! The variety and progression is really interesting, and makes for a wonderful gallery. So glad to have been pointed over here from Deacon’s blog. It’s always nice to get some fresh inspiration on a rainy Friday morning – now I’m away to get out the sketchbook and dash off a portrait – though whether or not I’ll do 100 is a different matter…
This is very cool and admirable. Just clicked through from Deacon’s last post to check it out. You guys have me thinking I need to put some “deliberate practice” into writing short interesting posts to increase my posting rate and help me learn to say more with less.
@Katie Thank you so much! I’m so glad you came by, and to sharing the sketching inspiration. Love your work, too, by the way! I shared a studio with a bunch of glass artists once and am super impressed by everything involved in it!
@Carlos Thanks! Interesting idea – that’d be awesome to read and hear about the process.
Hey… Daviduk sent this to me!!! I love the drawings.
You have inspired me! I think I will try this. Is there some place on the web I can read about this or should I just start.
Have you seen Alice Neel’s paintings. Some of your drawings remind me of her work.
Lou
@Louanne Thanks! This post on Drawn.ca (awesome, awesome site) is where I first heard about this. http://drawn.ca/2007/10/10/6000-heads/ Check out the flickr page it links to. A very Awe-inspiring collection of artwork.
Wow, I LOVE Alice Neel’s work. Thanks for introducing me to her.
Oh, oh, oh! I love this 100 heads project. More than that, I love what you say about being less ‘precious’ and more light – throwing something together.
I tend to make things I love more when I let myself be guided by intuition, switch off, forget about the outcome and kind of tune-out.
Although I have to say you are VERY clever that you are capable of planning big, extensive projects! Wow!
Hi Jen, Joanne and I are admiring your wonderful work of all the 100 heads . They look just great, and the record of your progess is interesting.
Jo says hi!!
Take care
Mom