here are lots of self-portraits

twelfth

thirteenth

fourteenth

fifteenth

sixteenth

seventeenth

eighteenth

nineteenth

twentieth

twentyfirst

twentysecond

twentythird

twentyfourth

twentyfifth

twentysixth

twentyseventh

twentyeighth

twentyninth

thirtieth

thirtyfirst

21st and 25th are left handed.

Number ten

tenth

I appear to have mislaid number 11 so will either look harder or redo.
Possibility of it being in my studio at uni which I won't be back to until March.

day 2 all the way through til today.... which is 9th Dec

second

In my favour, I have been looking at a lot of Francis Bacon but his are so much more sculptural, must try again.

third

fourth

a little kinder to myself, and taking away instead of adding is difficult, a whole new way of thinking and looking.

fifth

  I do love doing these,
  looking in the mirror but not at the paper at all.

sixth

seventh

and a bit of colour.

eighth

ninth

eight and nine, I have gone back to what I'm comfortable with but more strangeness will occur.

1 December

A whole new set of self portraits to follow.

1 Dec

This paper was prepared a long time ago, I went through a whole sketchbook just making up pages, and now they're all gone.

So….. I get all the fun of preparing another sketchbook… :)

twentysix all the way to thirty

It has been a busy few days but the portraits have been completed just not posted until now.

twentysixth

I think I look a little grumpy, and if I remember back to Thursday, I wasn't in the mood at all.

twentyseventh

These shadows are getting interesting.

twentyeight

and softening for bit…….


…….but not long, a wee bit colour which has made me want to do a longer self-portrait in pastels.

twentyninth

thirtieth

I had initially intended to draw back into this,

then decided to leave it as is.

...… That's it, I have finished my portrait a day for November, and I've enjoyed it a lot, learnt a lot, in fact it's been a bit of a diary of my moods in some respects. I feel that I've hardly started going out of my comfort zone so I have decided to carry on into December at least until I go away to India and then it'll be all different.

twenty to twenty-five

twentieth

Hmm, feel like I'm starting to push out
of my comfort zone now, although
I keep dipping back in.

twentyfirst

Enjoying playing with the line like this and breaking up my face into pieces. Crazy paving/stained glass.

twentysecond

This is now another of my favourites, I do love line.

twentythird

and another, ok, I did the last two on the same day, which was the 23rd as I was at work and no free time on 22nd.

twentyfourth

I did have a different idea behind this one but it didn't really work.

Ah well, more experimentation then.

of course, I still felt that it needed the edge putting in.

Contained within.

twentyfifth

And number twenty-five…. today I was feeling a little like this, head in a bit of a black cloud but after doing the portraits, am feeling much better.

14 - 19

Yup, I've got a few more portraits to post.

fourteenth

playing with new pen,
water soluble.

fifteenth

Hmm, seem to be washing myself away a little with these ones. This one (15) was done without the aid of a mirror, amazing how much can be remembered.

sixteenth

oops, eyes really squint here.
I didn't spend a lot of time on this it must be
said.

seventeenth

New inks to play with on the last two.
This one makes me smile. Generic face.
I wonder how much I can abstract and still have it recognisable as me?





Ok, truth be told, the last two were actually completed on the same day as the next (18), it was a busy weekend.

eighteenth

I wasn't really angry, just using
the old eyebrows to look up at mirror.

nineteenth

and, n n n nineteen. Love soluble pens.

Thirteenth

Very happy today because my computer has been returned to me from the fixers…. whew!

So everything computer based is much easier hence the new self-portrait.

thirteenth

Another line drawing… yes I know… but I like them, and this has the added bonus of being done with my left hand.

Twelfth self-portrait

I did try to post this yesterday but for some reason the computer decided it couldn't see the jpeg, so her it is now.

twelfth

 

This was just a 4b pencil but I do draw quite lightly, really enjoyed this one and I think I went a little over the half hour I allowed myself.

self-portraits

I did say that I would be doing a self-portrait every day and of course I have posted nothing.
But.... I was doing the portraits so here we are from 1/11/14-11/11/14. Todays hasn't been done yet.
Before I post them please understand that there is no deliberate attempt to make them lovely as will be patently obvious. I fact the idea is to try different mediums and ideas.

I don't like them all but I did enjoy drawing something that doesn't have to be correct, or to the best of my ability, the concept is just to draw for its own sake as well as retrain my eyes back into looking.

Here they are:

1/11/14

 

 

 

This one was drawn by looking at myself but not the paper and its actually one of my favourite so far.

2/11/14

 

For No.2 I just grabbed whatever came to hand, ink and a yellow pen.

3/11/14

 

 

A little severe for No.3 but I like the lines.

4/11/14

Not a good day as you can see, the name Smeagol comes to mind.
It was definitely a low.

5/11/14

 

Moving on to No.5 and I'm beginning to relax and most certainly a better day.

6/11/14

 

Today I wasn't feeling well.... Hmm, can you tell?
Although I did also pick up an envelope with pastels in and this is all the colours I had.

7/11/14

I think I was a little annoyed with myself today. Burnt sienna ink,black pen and a little blue pencil.

8/11/14

Soluable ink pen and small paintbrush and water.
There's a little softening going on which I'm glad about.

9/11/14

 

No. 9 and all I used was a white pen. The paper is from an old sketchbook that I'd painted washes on. I like the effect so I think I'll use the rest of the sketchbook up.

10/11/14

 

Graphite stick is the medium this time, and I was
aiming for using straight lines completely which
is a favourite method of mine for helping me look
properly.

11/11/14

 

And now for No. 11, which surprised me.

Just painting in the shadows with a very watered down ink wash, I had intended to then draw into it but then decided to leave it.