sketcharoo 8

i'm glad march is finally over. this has been the longest and most agonizing month of the year. maybe not entirely, but for the most part it actually is. i hope the next few months will be better. i'm offering popcorn, so go easy on me, world.

i went for a walk last night. ended up splurging on more pencils and charcoal. i also bought a magazine. i'm taking my project very seriously so buying art materials is excluded from my SAVE UP discipline. i really want to improve my craft this time so i'm collecting as many pencils as i can. hahaha. crazy ass.

anyway, here's my tenth installment in the 30 faces project:

it's a giorgio armani ad from the elle magazine i bought earlier. i figured i'd have a hard time with the wet look but i said whatever, bring it. but i forgot to take into consideration the leaves on the left side of the picture! i do not draw flora and fauna. O.O scared me shitless.

i had to add a few strands on the face. you know how it feels when suddenly your hands move on their own? yeah well that happens to me a lot so i have to improvise most of the time. oh by the way, the high res images are courtesy of my dad's camera phone. borrowed it especially for this drawing. should've borrowed it earlier though huh?

now here comes the problem: what to do with the left side of the drawing? i really didn't want to draw leaves and rocks. that's for another project. so i decided to just..

shade the left side. completely. hahaha. it's dark black on the real picture anyway. the leaves appear a good way away from the face. so it's not cheating or inventing. it's improvising. LOL.

i promise to do better with the flora and fauna next time. :)

i have to give credit to the brilliant things that made this drawing easier. i found them in the bookstore today and they're amazing. shading stumps ladies and gentlemen.

goodbye march, take all the bad things away with you please.

hello april, be good. please be good.

delicious ambiguity.