Once again I find I have no one to blame for this goat rope but myself. Alas, I fear I shall have to take a dose of my own foul medicine. On the off chance that you have no fucking clue what I’m talking about, The Indecisive Eejit says it way better than I could.
Part of my willingness to take part in these shenanigans is to kick myself in the ass improve a skill I’ve long said I suck at don’t have. But maybe, just maybe, I do have it. I present to you my photo inspiration…
That was one of my senior pictures for high school. It also happens to be probably my very favorite picture of me ever taken. It’s also how I see myself in my mind’s eye. So I used that to draw from, and I arrived at this…
Certainly not photo-realistic, but still recognizable as a human and not quite a troll. I’m not totally in love with it but I honestly think it shows more skill than I’ve been giving myself credit for. If nothing else I’m finding it’s giving me enough encouragement to keep working on getting better at this.
If I’d had my way, I’d have drawn myself with big anime style eyes, wearing my purple glasses, human head on a squirrel body complete with some tats showing, Birkenstocks, and a rose in my teeth. Maybe for next week.
It would never be a cool as the one that Josh did for me, but close
Mental in the Midwest 
You are a very pretty woman, and your drawing wasnt supposed to be realistic, it was supposed to be the cartoon you. So its perfect, great job. 🙂
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Thank you very much! That was a perfectly “mom” answer, which I love. 🙂
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Lol, its hard to turn off the mommy sometimes.
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No worries, you sounded like my mom, which was very sweet. 🙂
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Good job…much better than I could have done! Now I’m ready for the anime Mama. 😀
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Uh yeah… Not sure how that’s going to go. I talked to Josh about it last night a bit and he said it was rather ambitious. So we’ll see. 🙂
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What a great drawing and a very funny post
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Thank you very much! And thanks for stopping by. 🙂
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Well done missus, it’s good to flex those creative muscles that are rarely used every so often, looking forward to seeing more xx
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Thanks m’dear! I’m still not sure which was more fun – drawing that myself, or getting Josh to finally talk to me about his creative processes. It was a delightful evening.
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How gorgeous were you! Twit twoo!
You’re really rather good at this drawing malarky and so is Josh by the looks of things 🙂
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Josh is the talent with the pens/pencils/markers. I’m the whiz with the yarn and the ideas. Poor bastard. 😉 But I did manage to pick up a much smaller sketchbook to keep in my backpack so that I can try to engage in this doodling business I keep hearing about.
(and thank you, that was MANY moons ago and I’m pretty sure that nice photographer did a little touch-up work on the photos)
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Bah, I have a residual loathing of self-portraits left over from art classes of the past. I always notice faults before features. But it’s a necessary evil, I believe. Keep up the good work! And I’ll be waiting for that tattooed squirrel portrait as well.
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LOL, thanks! 🙂
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