Weekly Drawing: Self Portrait

Weekly Drawing: Not a Drawing

You may have noticed, this is not a drawing. It's a watercolor. I didn't use watercolor pencils either, so it is truly not a drawing at all. The fact is, I need to take more pictures of my drawings. Another fact: I need a new camera. So today you get a painting. Self-portrait, actually. Hope you like it.

Self Portrait Completed!

Finally done!  In case you missed it, a week or so ago I posted with some in-progress pictures of my self-portrait.  I left off with the "Jake Gyllenhall" phase, and am happy to say that the painting improved a lot since then!

 

 Whew!  I no longer look like Donnie Darko.

I was ready to throw down the brush at this point, but my husband told me the nose wasn't big enough.  Just what was he trying to say?!  Actually he was right.  So I fixed the nose and added a few more details.

 

Ta-daaa!

I used a mirror as reference, but I kind of wish I had used a photo so I could show a comparison.  I tried to find a picture of me where I'm looking square at the camera and not smiling.  Here's the closest I came up with (kind of old, with different hair and glasses, so use your imagination a bit):

So anyway.  That was fun.

Self Portrait Progress

So I usually hate showing people my work before it's completed, but I'm hoping this will motivate me to finish it sooner rather than later.  Here are progression pictures of what I've been working on lately.

Blank face.  Spooky?

Getting some value in there.

Kallisti was keeping me company.

Very cartoony looking at the moment.

 

Wow. When did I turn into Jake Gyllenhaal?

Some notes: I actually started this when I had long-ish hair, which I have recently chopped off and colored blonde.  So Now I'm just kind of making up the hair in the painting because I don't feel like changing it.  I am lazy.  You have no idea.

Also, I wear glasses, which I'm thinking I will add once I'm pretty much done with the face.  More pictures to follow soon!  I will probably paint some more today since there's like 7 inches of snow on the ground and I have the day off.  Who knows, I may even finish it today!  Probably not.  But maybe!