Like everyone else, I’ve been too busy to do much with this, but I HOPE I’m now ready to concentrate on it better. Here are my efforts so far. Gag! I’m actually even older than the self-portrait, but I had a hard time adding enough wrinkles and bags to make it look like me. A clear triumph of vanity over realism. My father NEVER looked like the memory portrait, although he did wear wire-rim glasses and parted his hair in the middle back when he was young. The hand isn’t too bad, although I seem to have managed to omit the veins and liver spots–and plan to continue to do that. The last one speaks for itself. I’ve a ways to go. Click on the thumbnails for a larger view.
Now that I’ve figured out how to post directly to this blog, I hope more of you will do the same and let us all see what you’re drawing these days.
Suzanne
Suzanne… you are too hard on yourself! yes, like me, you have practicing to do, but I think these are a great start, especially the hands. As we work our way through the book, there will be more about visual texture (aka wrinkles and spots…me too!). My biggest “AHA!” moment of the first time through was that the eraser was a drawing too…. using the shaded paper/with graphite ground, then using the eraser to create the highlights…where the light hits the bumpy veins on my hands (not sure they are visible in the pics on my blog)… Keep at it and thanks for your persistence in getting to be able to post on this site!
Suzanne
So glad you posted your drawings, it was getting very quiet around here. Your hand looks good for a baseline drawing. I also tend to leave out wrinkles when doing a self portrait. It is your drawing, so to a certain degree you can do what you want.
Kathy Walker