organized chaos

Aside from the satisfaction of capturing a person in a drawing, there is the vanity factor.  If you can stand drawing a picture of yourself, from a photograph, mirrors are infinitely harder, it’s a good exercise in objectivity and you get the added bonus of changing little things you don’t like in the photo, but won’t change the overall drawing too much.  For example: Here’s a drawing I’ve been working on the last few days of me and The Cuteness.  Scroll down to see the actual photo. Click on the images to make them bigger.

And here’s the real thing

In this case, I just changed that stupid piece of hair right above my ear. It’s funny how something so small can make me hate how I look in a photo, but otherwise it’s a nice picture.  So I broke out the pencils and fixed that little thing.  Good times.