February .... and more me

So, I'm just going to get straight in there and post my faces.

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second

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fifth

sixth

seventh

eighth

ninth

tenth

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twelfth

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seventeenth

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nineteenth

twentieth

twentyfirst

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twentysixth

twentyseventh

twentyeighth

February completed. There are quite a few this month that I want to explore further.

More January Portraits

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sixteenth

seventeenth

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These four are all completed without looking at the page and they make me smile every time. They are also very good for not taking myself so seriously.

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twentieth

twentyfirst

For these, the pastel was used before the line……. and yes, I did do them all on the same day, the previous two days had been travel days.

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twentythird

twentyfourth

twentyfifth

twentysixth

twentyseventh

Playing around with negative shapes and the light and shadows.

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twentyninth

thirtieth

thirtyfirst

and there we have it…. all of January. I don't have a favourite but there are certainly some I prefer over others. The explorations into the shapes that light and dark make on my face are very enjoyable and of course where I haven't looked at the page while drawing are fun.
More to come in the next post.

twentysix all the way to thirty

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

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

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These shadows are getting interesting.

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and softening for bit…….


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

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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.