Self-Portrait Diary

Friday, May 1, 2009

#019

I love colored pencils. The cold blue with the warm yellow-brown turned out very nicely, I think.

Colored pencil, pencil.

#018

When I make a self-portrait, I spend 10% of my time setting up my workplace, 40% drawing, 10% erasing, 25% shading, and 15% making funny faces in the mirror. I usually draw alone.

Pencil.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

#017

Yeah. I've been watching waaaay too many X-Files. Also, this is the first one I've done where I actually used an expression. It took me forever. Also also, I've been thinking of using multiple techniques, so we'll see how that goes.

Colored pencil, semi-invented.

#016

I do better with straight up crayons, but not much better. I think it's that watercolors require a lot of patience to wait while the water's drying, patience that I don't have.

Watercolor Crayon.

#015

Yeah. I'm not very good at watercolors. In fact, I hate them.

Tube watercolor, watercolor crayon.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

#014

It seems that every time I do this, I find new dots on myself. There's the one next to my right eyebrow, one under the left side of my lip, and one on my right temple.

Pencil.

#013

I think this is my best one so far.

Pencil.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

#012

This one I drew, de ganas, with environment. That's the ceiling way up at the top, and Silvia's portrait of me that partly inspired this whole project obscured by my head. My giant, giant head.

Pencil.

#011

I don't like this one. My hair wasn't combed, and I think I look slightly simian. My fault.

Pencil.

#010

This is my favorite one so far, I think because of the way I did the shirt.

Pencil.

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