Flashback

Here's some soft lead pencil work I did quite some time ago. I read Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. The self portrait was the first thing I drew with the program. The others were done a couple years later. Unfortunately this just goes to show that I've wasted a lot of time NOT doing the things at which I'm actually quite good.

But no bother. I'm not dead yet!

Recognizable but doesn't quite do me justice, right? RIGHT?!

Skylar looks great. Me not so much. Made the common mistake of throwing off head dimensions because I failed to lay it out more fully before filling in the pencils.

Really like this one. Though it reads well, it didn't truly capture the spirit of the original photo.

Despite its gruesome subject matter I was very proud of this piece. Like the preceding drawing it comes from an art photo. It's actually a very famous photo if you've never seen it before. My only disappointment with this piece is the stasis of it. You don't get a sense of the action of it. Probably because I rendered it so sharply.