29 faces September Challenge, faces #25 #26 #27 #28 #29 and a bonus #30!

Holy crap I did it!

I really didn't think I was going to make it this challenge.

I'm pretty happy with these next few faces, all were free hand with charcoal. They don't look as nice as my pencil work or something I map out first but I can tell that I'm improving.

Faces #25 and #26 the wolf-man and his girl

Faces #27, #28, #29 and bonus #30! They should he familiar faces :)

29faces September Challenge faces #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23, #24

Ok, I got my commission work done, which got me as far as face #24 (I actually forgot one and though I was only at #22, I was a little disappointed)

Face #16 Killian

Faces #17, #18, and #19 the whole family.

Faces #20, #21, #22 The whole family (I did this one first but I didn't like how her son turned out so I did the other family portrait as well)

Faces #23 and #24 Father and Son

Can I make it? 29faces September Challenge.

I have one day left to finish 9 faces ( I have faces #16, #17, #18 #19 & #20 done. I just need to upload the pictures to my computer). The last time I was on the wire to get faces done I  posted some pretty crummy sketches just to get all 29 done on time and you know what? I wasn't happy about finishing the challenge, I felt like I had cheated or that it wasn't really over with. 

So tomorrow I am going to try to do 9 faces, and I'm not going to rush it, I will complete them, and if I can't make it, at least I can look back on some quality faces.

Wish me luck!

September 2014 face #14 and #15

One of my friends on facebook wanted a picture of herself done, I snooped on her facebook page and found the cutest picture of her and her son and had to draw them.  She loved how it turned out and has requested a few more, which will probably be my next few faces.

Face #14 and #15...

September 2014 Face #13 Katy Perry

I had another request, this time for Katy Perry. To say how Kylie is related to me is very long winded (think friend of a friend type  thing). Anyway, she's 5 and is in love with Katy Perry, she even went to the Katy Perry concert that was in Portland last week. She was all dressed up with fairy wings and got her hair spray painted blue, just like Katy Perry. She's stinking adorable.

Sorry for the fuzziness of the picture, I took it on my phone and sent to facebook before copying it to here. (maybe when I stop being lazy I will put a better picture up).

September 2014 Face #12... I think...

Home improvements have taken over my free time but at least I don't have a gaping hole in my living room wall anymore :)  I was able to carve out sometime tonight  and got a face done. Tomorrow I'm taking a well deserved break and hopefully will be able to catch up on my faces.

Face #12 was a request...a very insistent request from my facebook page.

John Wayne.

September 2014 faces #10 and #11

This weekend was super busy, and I didn't think I would get any faces done, but while at the Renaissance fair  on Sunday I was able to sketch two faces. I found a shady spot at one of the small stages and for 10 minutes I listened to a harpist and sketched.

The first face was just charcoal to paper, I couldn't see the harpists face, otherwise I would of sketched her. I couldn't blend every well with the charcoal pencil that I brought so I didn't do  much shading or detail.

One lady sat down kitty-corner from me and I was able to get her basic sketch... she moved before I could finish her.

And a picture from Sunday. It was near 100 degrees in the kings valley (It's actually named that, it's not just for the festival) and all of us had a blast despite the heat. And my feather costume held up nicely (and kept me cool compared to last years outfit) though I have some tweaking I want to do to it before next time.

September 2014 faces #8 and #9

Woot! Two more faces done, another couple, this time in charcoal. 

I'm still behind, but I'm getting closer.

September 2014, Face #6 and #7

I found a little free time last night, and while I watched a movie, I also got faces #6 and #7 done.
These faces are personal, I had been trying to draw them for over three years. The guide photo is of my grandparents, just before my grandfather went into heart surgery, it turned out to be the last photo of them together.
I wanted to  draw it for his memorial, but couldn't bring myself to do it, his death was still too fresh.
So, almost four years later, here it is...

September 2014.....

Simply put, I am behind on faces. I am in the middle of installing flooring in the upstairs AND making 4 costumes for this weekends  Rennesance fairs. I'm a little swamped, but even though I'm behind, I have a plan, and I will finish these 29 faces within the time frame.

 I hope everyone else is doing well with the challenge, when I find more time I plan on blog hopping and checking out everyone's progress! 

September 2014, face #5

It's been a busy two days. I am remodeling the upstairs of my house and removing a fireplace in the downstairs (which will need a new wall put up before it rains), we also got an impromptu roommate last week when a friend lost his apartment, to say my house is a chaotic is an understatement. To top it all off , yesterday I found out I lost one of my jobs, the steady one that paid the rent, I have mixed feelings about it, I was talking with my business partner about  absolving that business at the end of the year, I just wasn't planning on it happening this soon....

My point in sharing isn't for sympathy, I know this is the flow of life, out with the old, in with the new. But I think it's the reason this next face turned out so well (he's my favorite so far this challenge). I've noticed that my best art comes out during times of heightened emotion, Happy, Sad, Stressed, Depressed. It doesn't matter what feeling it is, the excess emotions spills out into my art and makes something amazing (At least I notice a difference in quality).

See for yourself...

Face #5....

I could of done his hair better (hair seems to be my weakness, I just can't get any of it right), but I love his nose, eyes, and eyebrows.

The inspiration....

September 2014, Face #4

I didn't want to map out this face, I just wanted to put my pencil (charcoal) to paper and create something.

I started with her eyes and after the initial sketch I moved on to her nose and mouth. I added more detail as I went along, shading and  blending. She turned out pretty cool.

Face #4....

September 2014, Face #3

Face #3 frustrated me. I loved the photo I used as a guide, but early on I had skewed the face somehow, (proportions, angles, something was wrong in the beginning), but I just kept going with it, I was trying to make whatever I did work (which usually works out fine). There is a lot about this face that I like, but as a whole I am not happy with it, and decided to stop messing with it, because I was taking hours just touching up little areas. I started on face #4 instead and left this one as is.

Face #3....

September 2014 Face #2

This challenge you will see a lot of elderly people, I love drawing wrinkles for some reason, and absolutely love the character that they give a face.

The face....

Off to get more faces done, I hoping to get a few done a head of time so I have back up for a busy day.

September 2014 Face Challenge, Face #1

Welcome back, it's time for more faces!

I've been looking forward to this challenge all summer, a new job kept me busy in April/May and I wasn't able to participate in the hands challenge like I wanted to( I also stopped checking by the facebook page, and lost touch with what everyone was doing, yikes!). Things have calmed down a little on the home front and I decided I could take the plunge and work this challenge into my busy schedule.

Here we go. Face #1...

Happy Labor Day, I'm off to binge on classic horror movies and get more faces done :) (It's how I do things, movies and drawings go hand in hand for me).