Xan hehe

Xan...

Her face is challenging.

I tried.

I feel like this was kind of a failure, probably partly because she was moving a lot. Xan likes to flip her hair a lot and scrunch it in her face to make her semi-bangs look voluminous, so that was part of the challenge I think. Also, I was trying to accentuate her features, because often she looks dollish if you don't, so I think I went a little too far with the lip size. The picture I have was from the board, so Xan is the one on the left. It may not all be completely visible...I plan on trying to draw her successfully in the future.

Recent

Here are some recent drawings that I have been doing.

The first is part of a self portrait that was made with charcoal. I took pictures of several different parts of it, because as a whole I feel like it doesn't look like me, and I decided that was mostly due to the elongated face as well as the shape of the lips.

Here is a picture of a part of it that I feel resembles me slightly...

Not Obsessed...

I know with some of my recent works (fetus, child etc) it may seem that I have a slight obsession with children. Alas, I do not. However, I can't help but really admire these paintings by Kevin Peterson. The contrast between the girls and the environment really interested me, sooo you should check it outttt. "Graffiti Girls" and his project "Boundaries" are really creative and he is clearly a very skilled painter. Here is a link. (Mentor?)

http://kevinpetersonstudios.com/?page_id=3

http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Graffiti-Girls/450926

Woman I

This is Woman I. She's a hottie.

This is part of our project that required us to use a piece of art and respond to it by making something. My painting was in response to Woman I, by Willem De Kooning. I call it... Child I. The child of Woman I.