The Art for Today

Hello dear steemians! let me share my artwork from 2013!

The title is Color blind inspired by the song from Glee - Colorblind lyrics. As you can see on the page I wrote a part of the lyrics that just hits the right words for my emotions that time, or the emotions I wanted to project
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I did my usual portraiture art style with the subject being black and white and the flowers using colored pencils.

like this

Title: Color blind
Medium: Mixed media
Materials: colored pencils, graphite pencils, gel pen
size: 9" x 12"
year: 2013

The reference

I don't have the picture anymore but something close to it, just to show you it's really me.

OKay, that's me right there with the bowtie! I dressed up as a guy for a dance... LOL
And I always used to like my hair short like that.

smile

The song

If you would like to read and listen, here's the song

Process

I dont think I have much WIP photos, or any at all.
Here's all I could find

A little bit on the process, self portraits are often difficult to do because our image of ourselves is a bit distorted or biased really. We draw ourselves a bit more like how we imagine ourselves to be rather than drawing the exact representation.

Drawing a Human Face

Instead, let me show you some guidance using helpful images I found online.
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This is the basic rule, you need basic shapes to guide you if you are not so used to proportions of the face and body yet.
See the red lines?

Here are some steps for it:

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As you can see the steps are very simple, like drawing an oblong or an egg then dividing it with lines. then you know how and where to place the eyes, nose, mouth and ears.

Shading

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Actually this picture is a guide to draw the nose but since the face is also shaded and blended, I saw it's the best example.

take a pencil and shade using light cross hatching and just smudge. erase areas that have lighter parts and shine.

The hair

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I am not the best at hair but if you try hard enough you can achieve this.
You can put an initial layer of shading before defining the lines of the hair.

if I don't feel so tired I usually do all the details. But even I have to practice even more:
Here are some works Ive done

_{couple portrait: commissioned}

see here the pencil I used is dark and thick so the hair lines are not as fine and thin. but as long as you follow the flow of the hair it will look natural.

Lastly, curly hair!!!!!!!!!
I love curly cause its messy and artistic!
anyway, I used a mechanical pencil with a point of 0.07 so its more natural looking due to the thin lines it can create.