1 post tagged “face drawing”

Little known fact.  99% of stores only carry clothing to fit gentlemen 6'4" and shorter.  Well known fact.  I hate clothes shopping.  The 1% of stores that carry actual large sizes of clothes consist either of athletic stores full of sweatpants and tear-away pants, Big & Tall stores that cater to lumberjacks or those that prefer plaid and carpenter boots or specialty stores like the Men's Warehourse, Buckle and Banana Republic.  Since I don't enjoy wearing pants that require a draw-string or shirts that double as picnic blankets, I'm forced to shop at the latter.  While, I'm of course thankful that there are at least three stores that sell fashionable pants that fit, I'm known to have fits over the fact I'm required to pay premiums for said clothing unless I want to look like I'm eternally prepared for flood waters.

Keeping that in mind, I've become infamous for wearing jeans out in order to get my money out of them to such a point as to where they simply explode from exhaustion into a storm of denim confetti.  Today, I realized with my new casual dress code where I work, my having only one pair of jeans was somewhat risky.  What if I was to be left without pants due to an unforeseen event where my jean was damaged beyond repair?  Wearing dress pants, when everyone else is wearing jeans, makes rumors spread you're actually going on an interview over lunch and I don't need that sort of gossip spreading simply because I break out my fine pleated-wear.  In defeat, I went to the Buckle today and purchased three pairs of jeans, meaning I will not need to buy another pair until my 40th birthday if current records stay unbroken.  Hallelujah, I've got extra pants that in total were more expensive than my television.  There's some guy out there at Buckle HQ, dressed only in stonewash, making a denim statue in my likeness right now I'm positive.

In celebration, Nicole and I went to a local swanky restaurant we've walked by dozens of times and ate lamb and carrot cake as rich people do for on a daily basis and it was glorious.  Other than dining out and pants shopping, I hit the pencil hard today, really working at my face-drawing and feel like I hit a milestone of sorts.

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I really got inspired with how crazy-nice the weather was today and sat outside a while with my dog and practiced drawing faces.  This has always been one of my weaker spots, aside from hands and posing (which I feel like I'll be a lot better at with all the practicing I've done with poses).  I was pretty amazed that after a good deal of eraser used, I started to remember all the reading I had done in the past 3 weeks about how to make a face look convincing.  Here's the first face I drew this morning, I was trying to draw a likeness of myself really, sort of eerie how it came out pretty close.  My eyes are really that big:

Then as the clock neared around 9pm, I got re-inspired and started really drawing again and here's what came out of it. 

Now, most of these were based on characters I've wanted to make in the past.  I had a revelation tonight on an idea for my comic, one that I'll hold back sharing just yet until it's fleshed out better and I'm positive that it's a good idea when I'm a little more awake. As far as the characters, I wanted to practice different looks with different personalities based on their faces.  As I worked on that, I wanted to start trying to remake a few of my old drawings to see what a new look would be like.  The ninja is a retry at one I made a long time ago based on a character Lee and I thought up a few years back:

The others, I'm not sure, I'm thinking they might replace a few of the old sketches of characters if I decide to go that route still (based on my new idea, I might have a really cool hybrid concept of the old idea and a new one).  To be honest, I'm feeling pretty excited as now it's more a matter of drawing out the ideas on paper to see how realistic it would be to draw what would be required for my new comic plan.

Either way, I feel like these face-drawings were a big leap in my abilities.  They're definitely happening faster now and I can tell that a lot of what I've been reading is starting to apply itself.  They're not perfect yet, or at least, not perfect in my mind but they're really getting close, especially the ninja face.  I'm really happy with that one, as he was the last one I drew before scanning them in.  Think that I might be on par to at least get some characters fleshed out tomorrow so that I'm ready to start practicing them in different poses, which is indeed the hardest part of all I've found.

Quick Facts
Weight: 246.50
Diet: Hot Cereal and chocolate chips, apple with caramel dip, banana, turkey&cranberry sandwich, broasted lamb, mash potatoes, carrots/broccoli/zucchini, 1 beer, 2 glasses of water, 2 glasses of OJ, 1 glass of milk.