After several hours of intense work, completely using up a Conté crayon, and wearing down half of another, I can finally say that my self-portrait is finished!! The original photo is top left, and the portrait drawing is top right. (For the purpose of comparing my two Conté projects - they were supposed to use the same style of mark as the Old Master I chose - the original Old Master work is bottom left, and my copy is bottom right.) While I am not as pleased with the portrait as I had hoped (I drew the eyes too low and by the time I realized it, I couldn't go back and fix it, and so now it doesn't exactly look like me), most of it still turned out beautifully, and for the most part I'm very proud of the work I put in.
I named my portrait "Panda" after several failed and cliché-sounding attempts. This is a double meaning, both because of the intense shadows around my eyes (like the markings around a panda's eyes) and because of a friend I call "panda." The parenthetical section of the title (the full title is Panda (Shadowed Sleepless Eyes)) merely refers to my eyes and the haunted look I intended to draw within them (and my face in general), and I left that part in parentheses because, of the two title sections, "Panda" has the deeper meaning.
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As of this week, I have finally started adding the Conté to the drawing. I have also finished the preliminary pencil sketch, which is the other big achievement of the week. Though the drawing doesn't quite look like me, I'm not too upset by it - I blame it mostly on the outlines of the prominent shadows that I drew on the face. That will be fixed once more Conté is added. For next week (the last progress post for this project!!), which is when this drawing is actually due, I will have the Conté layer completely finished, and the portrait will be signed. Hopefully it will look like me. I've never done such an in-depth self-portrait, let alone to the scale I'm using now. |
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May 2019
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