International Self-Portrait Day

Pencil crayon on paper.

Journal - Self Portrait

Ink is awesome.

My handling of self-portraits, not so awesome.  I did this one looking in a mirror, in about an hour.  I stretched my face a bit too long, I think.

International Self-Portrait Day

 

Actually managed to paint an acrylic self-portrait this year. One that looked sort of not unlike me. Last year the painting was so bad that I had to scrap it and do a speedpainting in the evening when the light had completely gone.

This is the fourth year that I've done this.  You can see other people's portraits in this thread on ConceptArt.org. This is the second year that I've done a self-portrait from life and not photos. I would like to do an ink or pencil crayon portrait sometime but it has to be done in its entirety on November 1st and I think those media are way too slow to do something with.

This year I tried to do a very stylized, flattened portrait and although I'm not sure it entirely worked out, it was something new and I actually quite like the original.  I had to assemble the scan from five different pieces, since it was too dark outside to photograph it properly.  I might play around with this style of portrait some more.

It'll be interesting to do this for six more years and see the changes both in myself and my artwork.

For reference: 2009 2010 2011

...Man I need a haircut. 

Self-Portrait

In the summertime, when the weather is hot... we hang out in the basement and paint self-portraits.

HMMM.  I look just as flaky in digital paint as I do in photos.

International Self-Portrait Day

Screwed up the traditionally-painted version so had to re-do it digitally. :P

That was a lot of portrait painting. Gonna have to practice all winter so I can put in a better showing next year! Also, jogging.

Moo Too

November 1st was International Self-portrait Day!

Zombie Me

Probably won't get to finish this CHOW on time since I've still got two POW (Panels of the Week) pages to clean up and I'm going out to dinner tomorrow and Saturday, but I'm going to have to finish this one up sometime because hey -- it's not every day you get to be undead.

Aah, I had a great idea for a Hallowe'en costume this year but I don't own quite enough things to pull it off. I was going to go as an anime catgirl, put a big stack of manga on my desk and "desu" at everybody at work all day. But the only anime t-shirt I own is this one and it's not exactly safe for work. And one ridiculous cat hat doesn't a catgirl make. Or hell, maybe it does! Maybe I should do it anyway.

Next year I'm going to get a fake beard and suspenders and go as a Bob. A Sysadmin Bob.