Blas Roca Calederio, born on July 22 in 1908, was a Cuban communist revolutionary and radical journalist. Roca helped lead the 1933 general strike that ousted Gerardo Machado, and served in Fidel Castro's revolutionary government.
Born into a poor family, Roca began working at age eleven, shining shoes. According to Castro, Roca was already a prominent communist organizer in the province of Oriente at 21 years old.
At age 25, Roca helped lead a two week general strike that ousted dictator Gerardo Machado. By 1936, he was head of the Cuban Communist Party and began serving as a politican, helping author the 1940 Cuban Constitution.
Under Roca's leadership, Cuban communists were instrumental in providing an organizational and ideological structure for Castro's revolution, as well as playing a pivotal role using the party's long-standing ties with the Soviet Union to promote increasingly closer ties during the early days of the revolution.
In 1961, Blas Roca, leading a party delegation, presented a Cuban flag to Nikita Khrushchev during a meeting of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Roca served on the first central committee and politburo of the new Communist Party of Cuba, founded in 1965.
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day 4 of sketching 30 min a day to grind from practically-zero drawing/visual art priors: headshot from scratch
used what I studied yesterday in facial abstraction to see if I could make a basic headshot sketch without a reference, took me half an hour but here's what I produced
added the pout because the way I drew the brows suggested it. the only thing adjacent to a reference was when I tried to replicate the angle of the head in the mirror for a moment so I could roughly gouge where to put the neck lines. def proud of this since I have essentially two hours of drawing practice under my belt at this point
If this is 2 hrs in I think you have a bright future ahead of you
I'm not good with art terms but this reminds me of quick sketches indie artists I like do, theres knowledge of how to draw behind it