29 Faces - Day 6

Yesterday’s Face with color.

I just noticed she has a very giraffe-like quality with her long neck and all. Hum…I should go back and add the spots. :)

I wonder why my drawings photograph with the left side less vibrant than right.  They look the same in person. 

29 Faces - Day 6

Hope you are all having a wonderful Sunday!

29 Faces Day 5

Here is my finished face after making corrections to the eyebrows, lips and the nose. But alas, still no color and no background. Is anyone else wondering how they are going to keep up the pace?  I am and I don’t even finish a full face every day.

Have a great weekend everyone.

29 Faces Day 4 - Inspiration from an unlikely source

Even though I have a office/studio I have been spending awful  lot of time in there due to my day job (I work out of my home). So last night I sat down in the dining room to start this drawing and noticed the picture of my grandson laying close to me. I started looking at the shadows on his face and decided to use them on this girls face. Is that weird?  Have you ever done that?

Yesterday I mentioned that I’m happy if the eyes line up. Well, I just noticed that one eyebrow is higher than the other.  I’m glad I saw it while I still have the chance to fix it. I don’t want her to look like she plucks funny.

My husband thinks she resembles Christina Ricci.  I think he must have been squinting and looking away when he came up with that. ;-P (see my last post) Just kidding, honey pie!

Oh yes, this is my little inspiration (but not the same photo).  He was 22 months yesterday. He’s proudly sporting his new haircut and new shoes. I’m not fishing for comments but isn’t he adorable?

29 Faces Day 3 - The lips that ate Chicago

This is so much fun but also so time consuming and I haven’t even started painting them. I don’t know how some of the other participants are doing such wonderfully completed paintings every day…..ahhh something to aspire to.

I’m sure I’m kidding myself but I think, that if you squint and look away (as my husband would say when he doesn’t agree), she looks a little like Michelle Trachtenberg from Gossip Girl. But no, I didn’t set out to draw any particular person. I’m just happy when the eyes line up like they should. :) Oh by the way, Michele’s lips aren’t that big. 

Oh yes, I wanted to say that constructive criticism is always welcome.

Day 2 - Same sketch more added

Here’s a different look for the sketch I started yesterday. Added hair, refined the facial details and added shading.  Lots more to do.

Day 1 - Initial sketch

Here is my first entry into the 29 day challenge. Pay no attention to the grid lines, wait…grid lines??  Her ears look big, don’t they?

More tomorrow.

29 Faces Challenge - May

As I indicated in my last post, I’m taking the Suzi Blu’s Portrait class and I very much need to practice. So it was serendipity that I ran across Ayala Art Blog because she is hosting the 29 faces in 29 days challenge beginning May 1st. Do I need to join another challenge? In general, no not really….except that I do need this particular challenge to help me make progress in my portrait class.
Now I may not be able to post 29 different faces during the month but I will try to post my progress in whatever face I am working on.
If you want to know more about this challenge, be sure to visit Ayala Art Blog for all the nitty gritty. Once you read up on the challenge, I’m sure you’ll want to join us. If not, at least come by and tell me how I’m doing, K?
See you later gater.

Playing with portraits again

So here I am playing with drawing portraits again. I’d love to be good at it but I just don’t practice enough.  I decided to take Suzi Blu’s portrait class because the class is self-paced. I don’t have to hurry if I don’t want too and I don’t have to wait for the next set of videos if I’m ready to move on.

The Goddess and the Poet was the class I wanted to take when it was first offered but couldn’t because it was a little more than I could afford to pay at the time.  Now? I’m getting three classes for an incredible deal. Plus I love Suzi. She’s been an inspiration to me since way back when she was vloging her paintings on Youtube, before she started offering classes. I took her first class on drawing and painting Petite Girls doll faces and really enjoyed it. 

Now Suzi is offering The Goddess and the Poet, Piety & Passion and Angels for $35.00 That’s an incredible 39 videos for less than a buck apiece.  Here, check it out yourself:

http://suziblu.typepad.com/a_lovely_dream/2010/11/self-guided-video-portrait-classes.html

The Juicy Life

On March 28th, my husband and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. If you’re married you know marriage isn’t easy by any stretch of the imagination. But to be lucky enough to remain in love all those years is a freaking miracle … A miracle that I am so grateful for every day of my life.

We celebrated our 25 years by going to one of our favorite places, San Diego, CA. We have always loved San Diego for it’s weather, for the people, the art and especially the beach.  Even though we haven’t spent as much time there as we would liked to have, we have some wonderful memories there. We got engaged in San Diego so it was the perfect place to go for our 25th.

Here is my journal page about the trip.  Simple but true:

 

This page is for Darlene in our traveling art journal group.