I spent the entire week
drawing the exact same face. Unfortunately, none of my drawings look
alike. Face suck. Let me show you:
I have to turn the
contrast up so we can see the scan properly, and that causes some
residual background dust and the stuff on the opposite side to
appear. Fortunately, all of these faces suck so it's not like it
wrecked anything.
Each face is the
identical boy. At least, it's the identical boy model in the book
Amazing Faces. I would like
to upload said face, but I worry that would be subject to copyright.
It doesn't really matter: no non-demonoid looks like anything here.
I think the nose is my new least favourite bodypart.
Something
that should concern me is the lack of improvement. You can't really
say that any one face is significantly better than any other; I think the very first attempt may be the best overall. I
never got the basic shape right either. I blame the book here, as it
says, “Draw an oval,” yet her final version of the face has been
altered to allow for cheeks and the chin. The last few days I tried
to free-draw the basic head shape, with fairly unpromising results.
Note also that the hair is supposed to be a buzzcut, very short, but
I generally make it look like an afro.
I
can take away two happy notes, though: one, I won't be drawing a face
again for a long time. That thrills me. Two, my final picture
actually shows a good pair of ears. That's good; ears used to give
me fits. These ones here have just enough suggestive shading to make
it lifelike. One positive to take away from a rather agonizing week.
I
now know why the manga/anime style of drawing cartoons is so popular:
it makes faces very simple (noses are often just triangles; good idea!).
In a couple of weeks I'll come back and try some more faces, but for
now I kinda hope I never see another face again. Oh well, I can only
improve, right?
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