Thursday, March 29, 2012

2012, March 29

I'm always surprised by my face - it's just never what I expect it to be. Not that I'm disappointed by it, or feel that it should be different in any way, It just never seems to be as I remember it - even after twenty four years of seeing it, day in, day out. The lines are never quite where they are in my head, the curves never quite the same. I suppose I'm also quite amazed at how huge my cheeks are, stretched quite vastly from cheek to chin as they are.

Anyhow. This is somewhat what my face would look like if made into a topo map. You'll note the absence of eyebrows, so as not to interrupt the contour lines of my forehead. I've found that slicing things up in this manner helps me better to understand blending, shading, and lighting for oil painting - as well as color flow. Odd.

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