29 Faces - Day 22 - 28

Well I got to the end of the challenge, it has been quite full on for me as I was also doing a couple of courses and also doing the 'I love you today challenge' which also looked at sketching every day during the month of February, mostly self portraits from images throughout my life, some of me as a child, and I have done a post on my reflections HERE.

29 Faces challenge was a great way for me to do more faces and try out different techniques, some that I really liked and some that I might not really use again.  It was also great (as it always is) visiting other blogs to see how other people have approached the challenge and find inspiration through their style and techniques tried. 

I really encourage you to take the step and if you want to see your creativity expand to take part in a challenge and start posting and sharing your work.

So here are my days 22 - 28, I am still going to be drawing on a regular basis as there is always room for growth.

Day 28

Final day, my final face for the 29 Faces Challenge.  I finished off with a fine liner and promarker pen, looking for an opportunity to grow in my use of shading and skin tone.

Day 27

Capturing older faces, and expressions, because there are so many more lines in an older face there is so many different techniques you can try.  Will do this one again, using more colour.

Day 26

A combination of promarkers and fine-liners also looking at patterns

Day 25

Playing with faces, better to spend 10 minutes a day doing a sketch than not doing anything.  I think I will use this face in a future painting.

Day 24

Wanted to do something more futuristic, then this young man showed up.  Not sure which planet he comes from, but he comes in peace!

Day 23

These were images that I also used in my Gratitude's and Celebration journal, quite smaller scale and trying to capture expressions.

Day 22

I don't draw enough men, so keeping the practice up, quick sketch to keep the hand in.

29 Faces Day 13 - 21

I can't believe that the month went by so fast, I managed to complete the faces for the 29 faces challenge but will have to split it up and post some today and the rest tomorrow. I have mixed it up a bit and tried to vary the mediums that I have used, with the aim of trying to stretch, use new mediums and add a few new techniques along the way.

Day 21
I am getting the hang of the pen and ink

Day 20
Playing with effects, this is what you get when you use promarkers and the image bleeds through the other side, the image is totally different from the one drawn on Day 17 below.

Day 19
Re-purposed image then added additional images such as the bird and heart which were made from handmade stamps, you can see how I made them HERE

Day 18
Big hair day, pen and ink sketch with promarkers, I think I prefer using the two combined.

Day 17
Playing more with the promarkers to start of an image, and trying to work with tones.

Day 16
Playing in the journal - re-purposing old images

Day 15
Using different profile poses, which is great to practice. This young lady was also in my 'I Love you today posts.

Day 14
Thought I would try drawing some more men, was interesting to see how difficult I found it, but it was great to stretch a bit, also used promarker pens, getting use to using them in sketches which I have enjoyed

Pen and Ink with promarkers

Day 13
This is one that I also used for the I love you today series on my other blog and you can see my reflections HERE.

Pen and Ink Sketch

29 Faces Day 6 and 7

Day 6 and Day 7 of 29 Faces

I am playing with inktense water colour pencils, stamps and some collage at the moment....

Day 6

Day 7

Come and see what I did for my 'I Love You Today' Challenge yesterday

29 Faces Day 5

Day 5 of 29 Faces

I love using collage elements and playing with the colours on the page, here is my offering for today!

Mixed Media portrait

You still have time to come and play

Come and see what I did for my 'I Love You Today' Challenge

I Love you today Because....

29 Faces and I Love you today because...

With February being valentines month and there will be demonstrations of love shown far and wide, which is great.  While we can think of reasons that we love that special person we can often forget to show some love and encouragement to ourselves.  I wanted to do some more sketches and thought I would challenge myself to do a sketch a day (Monday - Friday) and in particular they would be self portraits, I would spend a minimum of 15 minutes on them and I would be using colour fine-liners. At the weekend I will open it up and use other mediums.  For more information click HERE



I will also be taking part in the 29 Faces February challenge and will be posting each day here the images that I have done. 

Images so far:

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

I love you today series and 29 Faces

Weekly Sketching

Trying out different styles again..

Weekly Sketching

Feeling a bit more adventurous this week, wanting to practice characters with background.  This mother is lucky enough to be able to look out on her balcony to the garden below, while the baby sleeps peacefully!

Weekly Sketching

Grace came to say hello, she is going to be one of the characters of a story I did last year. Sketching weekly is enabling me to think about some of those long forgotton projects and breathing new life in them!

Weekly Sketching

Starting to use my 4b - 8b pencils again, forgot how lovely and soft they are and how the effects can be so very different.

Weekly Sketching

Been practicing drawing from different angles, its funny once you get started and in the flow you don't want to stop!

Weekly Sketching

Decided to get back into sketching and will be doing a mini sketch daily.  Will share the ones that speak to me most - that seem to have a story behind them and that I would like to further develop.  More and more I've wanted to draw faces from my imagination, rather than photograph.  Hope they bless and encourage.

Challenge of the Sketch Book....

Been doing some sketches using a pen on watercolour paper, and just playing.  I have been finding it so soothing and absorbing, don't think it will be part of a longer challenge but as we know taking part in some form of creative activity can be very healing, so maybe will post at least one a week alongside other art work that I am trying to complete!  I will also be putting a page at the top so that you can see more of my art work.

Peace

Different style faces, expressions.  It's been really great being able to focus for the whole month on drawing and sketching, it's now a big part of my daily routine, where ever I am, and it is also impacting on other work and things that I want to try now that I may have not done before.

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation

with the bricks that others throw at him or her

David Brinkley

Alex

This was quickly sketched from a photograph of my friends son Alex, he is such a bundle of joy and has a lovely nature.  I used graphitint water soluable pencils but haven't added the water yet

Each day of our lives we make deposits

in the memory banks of our children......

Charles R. Swindoll

Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless

vigilance go forward and give us victories. 

Abraham Lincoln

New insights

As I have been doing these daily sketches I have been allowing myself to spend a little bit more time on them, as I push through the first thing I reach for is the sketch book, I have been doing more art over the weeks, and some can be seen at my other blog http://realityarts-creativity.blogspot.com/  I really can't see how I existed doing the minimum of art before, it is so much a part of me.  I hope as you continue to push through you are gaining some interesting insights from your work!

Vision without action is a daydream,

Action without vision is a nightmare

Japanese Proverb

Something different

Different angles...

The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us.

If all but myself were blind, I should not want neither

fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture.....

Benjamin Franklin

More Frida inspired

I would like to do this one again, but take more time...

Don't dwell on reality; it will only keep you from greatness...

Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.

Frida Kahlo inspired

I have a couple of her books and like her style as an artist,

I did this sketch from one of her paintings called 'Self portrait time flies'...

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count.

It's the life in your years....

Abraham Lincoln

Eye...the windows to the soul....wanted to try a few different styles for doing eyes, then did the sketch. When I first did it didn't like the eyes that I did, so rubbed out and started again.  This is done with pencil, would like to add colour to this at some point.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.....

John Lubbock