Self Exploration

**jeremygordon89** · October 29th, 2010, 02:23 PM

I don't know what happened to my thread in here, so I guess I'll start one anew.

**jeremygordon89** · November 3rd, 2010, 08:34 PM

charcoal 11/ 3/ 2010

**jeremygordon89** · November 6th, 2010, 06:39 PM

**jeremygordon89** · November 9th, 2010, 12:23 AM

**jeremygordon89** · November 13th, 2010, 06:39 PM

Thank you jacab!

**jeremygordon89** · November 22nd, 2010, 11:00 AM

**Meaisín** · November 28th, 2010, 07:49 AM

Looking good man, I like your use of colour, I think #4 or 6 are my favourites.

If you're aiming for a more realistic rendition, it feels like your portraits could use a bit more structure and consistency. Your nose seems misaligned with your eyes in a couple of them - #1/2 are good examples I think, compared to a more accurate #6. I experienced this often myself :], and it's possible that you're moving. Maybe you're locking eyes with yourself after/before you draw your nose at an angle. I had to get really strict with my poses sometimes, and it can be really difficult to not end up drawing an exciting expression where my eyes looked 'dead'(focussing :p).
But, starting a drawing with planes, structure and proportional features will tie you down to keeping things unified. Your avatar image would be a great way to approach a self portrait. I'd like to see that ;]!

Keep it up, looking good, hope that helps!

**marina_koleva** · November 29th, 2010, 03:20 PM

My personal favourites are the last too and the first painted self-portrait. I think you work great with pastel. Keep up!

**jeremygordon89** · December 25th, 2010, 06:10 PM

Thanks everyone; by the way I haven't used pastel in these, it was colored pencil; though
I do plan on using my new nupastels to do a self portrait soon.

I just got a self portrait mirror finally, so I'll be updating this thread a lot more often.

**jeremygordon89** · March 15th, 2011, 04:57 PM

**jeremygordon89** · July 19th, 2011, 02:22 AM

Did this one about a month ago; I was happy with the colors kind of,
but I messed up the facial proportions

**jeremygordon89** · March 7th, 2012, 06:53 AM

Wow, it's been forever since I've updated this thread.

**Evan Kitson** · March 8th, 2012, 02:13 PM

These are great
my only crit however, is that the structure of your head could be pushed further, remember- there's a skull underneath, and an order to how your features sit and are lined up together.

Looking forward to more =)

**jeremygordon89** · April 17th, 2013, 01:18 AM

Thanks for the crit Evan, that's something I'll work on! I'm going to try keeping this updated again, at least twice a week. Here we gooooo

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