Yesterday I drew myself again! It's always cool to practice on yourself - it's free, always available and no one will be angry if you mess them up :D, which also reminds me that I need to get a mirror so badly! Recently I'm practicing a lot, I'm reading and drawing every free minute I have and this time I consider myself serious as I draw boring but useful stuff. Buuuuut let's go back to the point! I decided to make a little time line of all self portraits I ever drew and I have on my laptop here in DK. So let's start:
April 2008
I had that one in digital colors, colored with the mouse back in those old times, but the file disappeared mysteriously! I delete things very rare, I'm such a junk keeper, so I have no idea where it's gone, anyway the sketch speaks for itself and it tells me - laugh in my face - ha ha ha!
September 2008
Me as a Disney princess or something ha ha! Still no tablet involved! But I kinda still like this one for some reason.
February 2009
I've cropped that from a meaningless illustration I made for a practice. In the end of January'09 I've bought my tablet but I've used it mainly for the sketch and the background, the pen tool + mouse combination was still very strong habit.
April 2009
April doesn't seem to be very lucky mount for my drawing, hah! I found that in my junk folder! So it stayed just a digital sketch forever!
April 2009
Again cropped from a larger illustration made to show my new haircut which I made when I was accepted to the graphic design studies! Never finished. I've hated it!
May 2009
I've always loved that one! I still do, despite the mistakes I see! Done for an Id pic on dA. I discovered my love for this shade of blue and I replaced my black eyes and hair with blue for more illustrative look. I still love that! I also have 2 blouses similar to the one I drew, I love them sooo much! I only have positive associations with that one and still consider it a successful one - it's still my profile pic and I still love it :) I even drew portraits in that style for few friends who liked it!
July 2009
I've joined the Dark side! Buhaha! Again cropped from a larger unfinished illustration, made to show how fed up I was with my old life - 3rd season working in a hotel, just finished my tourism studies and bound to deal with incredibly stupid and inefficient system - that was my inner self! I have to finish that one it was fun to draw it! Drawn during my night shifts on the reception by the way.
February 2010
Calm and happy, being finally where I've always belonged - on my way to a creative career, second semester graphic design student, hehe. That have never been meant to be finished, it was just a 10 min drawing for a little comic thing concerning personal affairs, he he.
March 2010
Ta daaa! The one from yesterday! Well I never meant to go so far and make it look realistic, I'm not a big fan of realism, so that's why I didn't make it too smooth and kept going with that texture brush. I wanted to make it illustrative and blue hairish again, but I end up here! To be honest I feel like I cheated a bit bcs at some point I took the reference picture, put it on top and made little marks where I should move eyes, nose and mouth, but that's all, It's not an overpaint I swear! But anyway I'll try to not do that anymore, coz it doesn't make me feel satisfied with myself. There are still things to be touched, but pffff that's for now! Done in about 5 hours on only one layer (except the bg layer and the sketch)! I never was brave enough to draw on one layer and even though I cheated it was great practice! Yeah!
PS: I need haircut so so so badly!
Yeah -You look like you, but I used to see your smile more often -but these eyes are still like "suprised radostina". Im not big fan of this brush effects. I need to see bigger -hope I will find on dA ;)
ReplyDeleteNice work! :)
Yaay! Thanks for commenting ;) Well, I closed my mouth on purpose - I hate drawing teeth and by the way when I smile my eyes are almost closed and I get way too much wrinkles ... I'm an old person haha! And yes I'll probably upload it in dA but if you want to see it big you can always click on this one and it will open in another window in real size ;)
ReplyDeleteThey are not wrinkles!! Its only fat around your eyes ;p
ReplyDeleteYeah, Im still standing on the site "dont use damn brushes" you can use them,but you schould be perfect in this. Tell me the truth: have u used this techniqe because it gives you faster effects? :)))
hahah now I'm fat :PP Great!
ReplyDeleteHmmm about the brush I didn't know it gives faster result ... I just wanted sth totally different in the beginning, but it turned out like this ... I don't know I'm just messing around, experimenting ...
I'm fond of the Disney style portrait and the newest one :)
ReplyDeletethanks!
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