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).