I'm Always Late

 Hi everyone. Happy Friday. Yes this is my second post for today, as I'm  a guest host over at Creative Artiste Mixed Media Blog. In this post I'm linking up  to Nicole's Friday Face Off and also to Gillena's Friday Lunch Break. 

 I feel bad I missed last week's self-portrait challenge, but to put it simply,  getting ready for the Thanksgiving holiday and the start of that weekend had just gotten the better of me. However, since it's Friday Face Off again and since I had at least started my face, let me share what I had done.

 And even though I'm late,  I hope you'll still let me join in. 😏  Here's the  face I used for my drawing, just me on the left.

  I like how I look in this photo, but as I did some quick pen sketches, I realized that one problem was the sunglasses. I needed to get a bit of eye showing otherwise I didn't look human. 👾

   I was just playing at this point. This was my journal pre-sketch to get my hand used to the idea of what it was drawing. Then I tried adding color because color is what really motivates me. (In retrospect, I wish I hadn't.)   I love using markers I can layer with because they give strong color. But, one thing I quickly figured out was that I couldn't exactly match the colors in the photo.

   So here you go. I feel like I am being brave even showing this, because I'm not all that happy with it, but not unhappy either.  I never did get a chance to go back and continue with another face to work out some bugs and add what I learned while doing my quick sketches. 

  A) What I like:

- that I  managed to get some eye showing through the sunglasses.

-that I got the teeth right

-and mostly I got the face right

B) What I don't like:

-my hair color is really off

-my glass shape on the right is really off

-and I didn't capture my smile

   I should also add that I'm really not interested in drawing things exactly like they are. I did enough of that getting my biology degree and having to do lab sketches. What I like to do is draw things enough so you recognize what they are, but they may not be an actual object.

  Saying that, let me share this journal page I made in 2019 that I found while searching through my blog archives. I'm not sure it's exactly me, but it is exactly how I like to draw, so you can get the essence of me.

   And let me finish by saying it's not really all that wonderfully done either, but there are a few things I like  about it. 

   That's all for me today. Have a super Friday and start to the weekend too.

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