self portraits

Here’s a thing I did last night when I was having a craft night with Aubrey.  This is drawn off of a little polaroid my grandparents gave me of myself holding a banjo when I was 3 or 4.

It’s not really done yet but I decided to put it up anyway because I don’t draw enough.

I used, an ink pen, construction paper and various kinds of paints to do this.

This is a drawing id made with watercolor, pencil, brush pen and the liberally photoshopped the shit out of it.  I really like how it turned out.  Click on it for a larger image.

A friend gave me a copy of this book called “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain”  It comes highly recommended by a bunch of people so I figured I would give it a shot.  I’ve started to read it and it seems pretty cool.

Besides the slightly bizarre “left and right side of the brain” parts of the book it seems to mainly focus on the idea of seeing like an artist instead of the technical skill of drawing.

I’ve done the first three drawings you are supposed to do without any instruction as sort of a baseline.  The one below is a self portrait which I don’t actually like very much.  I look cross eyed and stunned.  It actually makes me a little sad at the amount of skills I have lost.  Now that I’ve uploaded it, though, I am a little happy with the way the hair turned out.  Sigh.