The Non-Suffering Method of Drawing a Self-Portrait: take a photo, some good contrasts work best; lighten it & print (no need to use copious amounts of toner); paper clip it to the sheet you want to draw on; hold up on a window with bright sunlight behind and trace...
This is a traced drawing of the new profile pic. Looks way too young, but that's beside the point. Why? It's hard to draw ourselves - afterall, we haven't spent a lifetime looking at our faces. I have no real idea of my eye or nose or mouth shape, nor the way the curls fall. So I'm learning... for all you folks who don't draw, this is a viable way to learn! Even if it doesn't exactly turn out to 'look' like us.
A hand drawn image of a photograph photographed. O, this is fun! Lady of the Vines, or the Forest, or Fence Sitter.
In the gutter!
WORK AT HOME on this woman!YES, she's been sighted all over the city!
Self Portrait goes walking!Intrepid artist wearing a sun visor and sunglasses and a skimpy red dress seen taping suspicious SELF PORTRAIT to public poles and drains!
Stunning--both the images and the woman.
ReplyDeleteI've been wanting to join in the self-portrait marathon, but don't trust myself as a visual artist. Thanks for making it sound so easy...
Brenda - you are inspirational. You know that, I hope?
ReplyDeleteYou are inspirational, indeed. And this is getting very funny!
ReplyDeleteTake her where you would like to be taken! Maybe out to dinner, or dancing, a quiet park... where would you like to go... so it becomes an extension of the self-portrait... Oh, I can tell you are having fun!
ReplyDeleteInspirational? If my silly attempts inspire you too, then all for the better!
ReplyDeleteThe reason she looks layered on scenes is that she's a simple line drawing and needs her hair darkened and her lines darkened for posting, so I do that by using a marque tool. And then add text onto the image. She's a real drawing and a computer enhanced construction!
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Thank you dear ladies, Patry, Mary, MB, she bows gracefully as the wind picks up her paper and flies off...
Dinner, dancing or the park, oh, now you're talkin' MB!
I like the lamppost idea. Wish I'd thought of that! ...Oh. Right. No lampposts.
ReplyDeleteDave, there is the bar, where, oh, darts maybe, while you flick your hair back for the ladies... :) whoot
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