Liffey's Daily Self Portraits :D

**Ian Barker** · July 15th, 2009, 07:43 AM

Whatuuuuuup! Decided to start doing daily SPs after seeing some of the other threads in which people have been rapidly improving. I don't really have time for this, and I hate drawing self portraits. So this should be a good test of my perseverance and commitment. Hopefully I'll see some improvement and learn to like doing SP's a little more. All critique is greatly appreciated.

Most of these will be digital for the first month since I don't have a scanner.

First one is pretty uninteresting... works for a start though I guess. :/ I need to choose a better angle next time, I think the straight on shot is the hardest to shade because it's harder to see the forms, at least for me. Also for some reason I look really young in this picture, not sure why though.

**Ian Barker** · July 16th, 2009, 07:16 PM

#2
From a photo of when I had long hair. Obviously it's too soon for me to be moving to color... yech.

45 mins. Also yech.

**Ian Barker** · July 17th, 2009, 10:03 PM

#3

did value this time, worked out a little better.

**Ian Barker** · July 19th, 2009, 08:36 AM

#4

I didn't have time to post this last night, but I did draw it yesterday, I swear. >_>

Anyways, I did this in pen to keep myself from going over my lines as much as I do in photoshop. My plan for today is to do a few more pen drawings of the same picture. I haven't spent much time on these so far due to long work days and other projects, but I have the day off of work today, so for today I will have no excuse.

**Ian Barker** · July 19th, 2009, 06:36 PM

#5

Re-did the last picture twice, with some pretty noticeable improvements.

**Lawrence Humphrey** · July 20th, 2009, 05:00 PM

Definitely better, and I like that one from July 18th, too.

**Ian Barker** · July 20th, 2009, 06:16 PM

Thanks for looking, Lawrence!

#6

Back to photoshop

**hala** · July 20th, 2009, 09:28 PM

I like the overall use of tone in the latest one, but the neck muscles confuse me a little bit. keep it up

**Ian Barker** · July 22nd, 2009, 07:07 AM

#7

Didn't have access to a computer last night, and I only have this one photo of me around the house, so had to draw it again.

**Ian Barker** · July 22nd, 2009, 05:26 PM

#8

back to photoshop :|

**Mister LinOx** · July 22nd, 2009, 09:17 PM

Some very good improvement here. The first was okay, but the rest continued to improve. Have any tips for self portraits?

**Ian Barker** · July 24th, 2009, 12:27 AM

Tips? Just try to keep the forms in mind instead of just copying what you see. I'm not the one to go to for tips though.

#9

Really not too happy with this one. :/

**hala** · July 24th, 2009, 10:14 AM

try not to rely on memory so much though.
the last one is better than the rest tho, it's an improvement and a good expression

**donm** · July 24th, 2009, 02:56 PM

looks like you're improving rapidly! just keep on doing those studies and memory helps but don't rely on it for the first couple of years of hard study too much. (time may differ according to personal growth)

**Ian Barker** · July 25th, 2009, 12:52 AM

Thanks for the replies guys!

#10

**Ian Barker** · July 25th, 2009, 10:06 AM

#11

Might be time to start bumping up the size after this.

**Ian Barker** · July 26th, 2009, 02:56 PM

#12

Did this as the sun was lighting my room. Took a break and came back, and realized I had shaded it all wrong. Fixed it, took a little extra time though.

**xinranliu** · July 26th, 2009, 04:19 PM

looking good, keep going

**jigje** · July 27th, 2009, 02:29 AM

Wow, great progress Liffey. I nearly commented at post #11 but I ran outa time, then #12 is even better again. Keep dancin like that mate.

**Ian Barker** · July 27th, 2009, 09:58 PM

#13

icky-poo

**Ian Barker** · July 28th, 2009, 07:44 AM

#14

Two weeks completed!

**Ian Barker** · July 29th, 2009, 07:56 AM

#15

Did this from an older picture of me.

**feeesh** · July 31st, 2009, 08:55 PM

Nice work man, keep up with it. I can already see more confidence in your linework in the latest versus the first few.

**Ian Barker** · August 1st, 2009, 10:45 AM

#16, #17, #18

Took a couple days off due to long work days and needing to finish my newborn picture. I'll make up for it with three SPs today.

I like how 17 turned out, but 18 gave me a lot of problems.

**BSeng** · August 2nd, 2009, 04:57 PM

Wow. Excellent work. I think you really starting to understand the general shapes of a face. I think you're ready to go for color now. =D

**Ian Barker** · August 3rd, 2009, 07:50 PM

Think I'm gonna wait a bit more for that, BSeng... soon though, when I can work up the courage!

SP#19

Photoshop is being a bitch. I am ANGRYYYYYYY

**Ian Barker** · August 3rd, 2009, 08:35 PM

#20

Trying to maintain my compsure here. :|

Also I forgot to mention that these latest two are my first time ever starting a drawing with blobs of value instead of lines.

**hala** · August 5th, 2009, 09:03 AM

keep it up man, you're already showing solid improvement

**Ian Barker** · August 7th, 2009, 07:42 AM

Thanks hala... I've been doing 'em, just been really frustrated since they seem to be regressing the last couple days. Oh well... didn't expect to do this topic without runing into any problems. :/

#21, #22, #23

**PieterV** · August 7th, 2009, 11:27 AM

Hey, I recognized your name from the bizz lecture!
Good stuff in here, shows improvement!
I like your brushstrokes, a little bit too scribbly sometimes which muddies things up a bit, but pretty good on the whole.
Your construction is a bit off sometimes. Try spending a bit more time in the rough stages trying to nail the forms and proportions, and do allot of flipping to spot mistakes.

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