Week 2 of faces. The model on Monday was Brandon, and despite my drawing, he was not angry in any way. One of the biggest struggles was my tendency to elongate all the features and the face as a whole. I think this comes from growing up drawing cartoon and anime characters who have thin heads with smaller, nondescript features. It was good to put in a skull sketch under the drawing though, it gave some good perspective lines to curve the face around. I think the angry look in the drawing comes from how many times I erased and redrew the eyes: the more I drew, the harder it became to make the marks subtle.

Wednesday I was the face model, and I got propped up on a chair that was on 2 stools that was on a model stand...and I fell asleep half the time. Sorry for that guys.

I also finished my scenery painting for my other class. Originally I was going to add some sort of fantasy elements like a dinosaur turtle in the water or floating energy crystals, but I decided to focus on the process and getting texture and color to pop. I think it was inspired a little bit by cliff diving in Hawaii, though it's probably a little more idealized in my head than in actuality.