29 Faces - 5/18/12

Okay I admit it, I'm not taking the 29 Faces challenge very seriously. I rarely do, because there isn't a whole lot of pressure from anywhere to do well. Heh. 



I skipped a few days. There seems to be a second gap that I don't remember (or did I just misplace the drawings?) but there is no loaded gun forcing me to care about that so I won't.


Okay, I've changed my mind about posting the other couple of pics because they're just lazy and I need to try a bit harder. It happens. I accept a project on a whim and then lose interest because it's just not interesting enough! But I should promise myself that by the end of the month I will make an honest effort at least once. How about that?

And then when that's finished I will finally get some more supplies to make a few more journals! For every journal sold, that's like, five new journals I can make! Thanks guys!

29 faces - 5/10/12

A week in and I'm already getting tired of the faces. Not so much the subject matter but the fact that I end up putting it before other things I might want to do. Which also happens to be late at night at the last minute, ha!



Next week, Sketchbook Project 2012 is coming to Vancouver! I will probably show up on Tuesday to see what all of the fuss is about.



When I went to pick up a frame for my chickadee painting I came across some tiny decorative tapes and a set for five bucks! It's probably not really worth five bucks, but since I get to bypass shipping charges I decided to try it out. So far it feels just like all of the other washi tapes so I'm pretty pleased.



The colour/patterns were pretty much irresistable.

Could this be the start of finding decorative tape locally? I really hope so! This is a Recollections low-end brand, so if it starts showing up in Walmart I would be doubly pleased.

29 Faces 5/6/12

Dumping some faces here. There were a couple of days I simply did not want to draw. Above is a random, generic face that I doodled onto my journal.



Cats have faces too! Though they usually make more sense than this one.



Self portrait from a teenage photo of me skipping rocks.



Another random photo (of someone I hardly know).


BTW: Thank you for your lovely comments that have been (or have yet to be) left. They are appreciated :)

Faces 5/2/12

Here's the face I did for yesterday. I'm having one of those late mornings where I really don't feel like doing anything.

So I'm working mostly from photos I have around the house because I need practice with realism! I think this one turned out closer to reality than the first one. Maybe it's because her face is actually right-side-up? Hahaha.

It's really hard to turn off that part of the brain that wants to tell me what I'm looking at, instead of telling me what I see! 

29 Faces Challenge

It has come to my attention that there is an art challenge upon us, starting TODAY! Auuggh!

Anyway it sounds interesting enough: 29 Faces Challenge.



The month of May will be a month of practicing with portraits. I have embarrassing sketchbooks from high school that are nothing BUT pictures of people. Haha, to be specific, I have one that is entirely winged people. How embarrassing. I didn't even notice that until after it was completely filled up.

The point is that this should be a fairly simple challenge. I don't normally like the challenges that shame you into doing something every day (nanowrimo anyone?) because sometimes I just don't want to do it, and when you don't want to do it, it ends up crappy anyway and not very useful. It sounds like a challenge that would be very easy to cheat, actually.

One face. Every day.

BRING IT.