… I’m getting better at the technical skills of drawing.
I did this in about two hours this evening:
Compare with this self-portrait from February of this year:
Of course, the style is totally different, but I’m slowly training my eye so I can more accurately reproduce what I see. The realistic style of today’s drawing would have been totally impossible for me to achieve at the time I did the Valentine comic. It doesn’t quite look like me, yet, but it at least looks like an actual person, and a person with character at that.
Yay progress!
[This post was imported on 4/10/14 from my old blog at satsumabug.livejournal.com.]
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I think BOTH of them look very much like you! 🙂
Tank you. 🙂
lovely! You can totally see progress. Where are you taking class?
Drawing class through UCLA Extension, and painting/”two-dimensional design” through LA City College. The drawing class had more influence on the style of the sketch, but I’m logging more actual hours art-making in the LACC class (8-10AM twice a week!).
awesome! good work in 2 hrs 🙂 i think though the drawing in the comic one manages to capture your personality (your expression?) very much. i have always found that drawing your own self portrait accurately is one of the hardest things and the most revealing things ever. so much fun :). – alison
Tank you. 🙂 Yes, there’s something to be said for drawing spontaneously and not trying to meticulously recreate shadows and etc. I was just thinking about drawing comics last night, and how to reconcile cartoony expression with my new ability to actually draw shadows. 🙂 That’s something I’m going to have to work on!
what a great drawing. It really looks like you too.
Love, Margaret
Thank you! 🙂 I’ve got to work on getting the nose down more accurately. 🙂