This is SO not my fault. The ever-fabulous Keris Stainton mentioned she was tempted to try Show & Tell‘s 30 Day Drawing Challenge – and I am nothing if not suggestible.
I drew a lot as a teenager (still have v fond memories of my watercolour of Colin the Leopard Lily for my GCSE coursework, painted while listening to Ned’s Atomic Dustbin on cassette: good times), and I don’t really know why I stopped. I think at some point I decided words were ‘more my thing’, on account of my drawing being actually a bit rubbish.
Luckily, now I’m a grown up I don’t care about such finicky things, and will foist it on you anyway. Do please join in at home, interwebular friends!
Day 1: Yourself
Now I’ve thought about it, probably I could’ve done something clever here with a collage which interpreted the inner workings of my mind through the use of colour and triangles and stuff. But instead I just picked up a pencil and tried to draw my face.
For the uninitiated, here is my face:
Yes, I am in my dressing gown on the internet, wearing an earring made out of chalk. Shush.
(Also: yes, I know, the To Fringe Or Not To Fringe debate rattles on; no, I am not really that yellow, etc etc. This is sort of vaguely my general face, anyway.)
The results were… varied.
My first effort started well then veered into ‘I look a lot more like a half-Taiwanese five-year-old than I thought’, so I did a lot of rubbing out and correcting and decided my lips were particularly in need of attention, and…
Uncanny, no?
So I started over, and apparently decided to entirely ignore my face and draw Fiona Allen‘s face instead.
I blame the pencil. Pencils have a mind of their own.
Anyway, I started a 3rd time, and because I’ve put it last after those reprehensible efforts, it actually looks pretty good – even though in the real world it is an indeterminate set of features that, while it could plausibly be a person, still doesn’t in any way resemble me. Hooray!
At least I have fully captured the way one holds one’s lips when deeply amused by one’s own epic crapulousness.
Come back tomorrow, when I will have to draw AN ANIMAL (presumably from memory, unless I can procure a giraffe this afternoon). You know you want to!
In the meantime, do make sure to visit the utterly lovely new blog Girls ♥ Books, because today’s post is by me and is even more dorky than this one. *takes a bow*
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Oh lawks, you can really draw! I’ve just done the same round face with oblong specs cartoon I always do (of my face, that is). And you look just like Jane Austen in 2 and 3.
And I have done the same pencil-shadey thing I always do. Wish I could do cartoony-style things!
Jane Austen: it’s the hair, innit? I shall spend today wearing an empire line frock and discreetly weeing on the windowsill.
30 Day Drawing Challenge: Day 1 http://bit.ly/izuI4J – featuring My Face (sort of)
RT @mssusieday: 30 Day Drawing Challenge: Day 1 http://bit.ly/izuI4J – featuring My Face (sort of)
Oooh, very interesting, very impressive. Shouldn’t there be a favoirite cake day, too, though?
Every day is Favourite Cake Day!
You can really draw!
And now my stick men are going to look even worse than I thought… oh well it will be amusing anyway.
Good luck with the giraffe hunt
Where are your stick men? I want to seeeee!
Go you! This looks like excellent rocrastination! Look forward to seeing the next. Was disturbed that I didn’t actually recognise you in the photo for a second, so drawings a fantastic likeness as far as I’m concerned, as I obviously have that brain thing where you can’t recognise faces any more. Unless it’s the yellow, or that I really can’t get the hang of the fringe…
Yeah, I seem to be going through a not-looking-like-me phase. Is that a thing? Or do I have that brain thing where you can’t recognise faces too? It’s very confusing, anyway.
You are really good at drawing I am doing a 30 day drawing meme on the programming website Scratch
Thanks Faun! I’ve just realised I never did all 30 days – tsk. Good luck with you challenge – hop you get further than me!