Taking a selfie is bad enough, but trying to draw yourself from it while trying to hold a sketchpad and a tablet computer in one hand and an old felt pen in the other is quite difficult. I did try and use pointillism to do the shading but I think it didn’t really work well. Somehow the eyes in the drawing are looking at me, when in the photo they look up and to the right. The other thing with selfies is you see yourself the right way round, where when you look in a mirror everything is back to front, in mirror image.
I had been trying to take a photo of my reflection in a mirror but the tablet keep getting in the way. The only decent way to take it was by holding the computer tablet to one side but I ended up with the toilet in the background because my decent sized mirror is in the bathroom!
Anyway I don’t generally do selfies and its been a few years since I did a self portrait, but this was a bit of an experiment. I like painting people and drawing them. Soon the life drawing class I go to will be starting up again. Then I can get in some proper practice.
Till then I’m going to try and do a few more quick portraits, this took about 15 minutes.
Mallaband-Brown 
I think it’s very interesting that in your drawing you are looking at you because in real life to do the drawing you had to look at the selfie; you had to look at you.
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I know, its weird what the brain can make you do! If felt pens were not as fuzzy it could have been better,,,,
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I like it. And you know what they say, ‘A poor workman blames his tools’ ❤
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Ha! That sounds like I’m a poor work(wo)man! 😁
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I hear that in my head every time I bitch about whatever it is I’m using. I wish I’d never heard it! 😀
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No worries! I first heard it from my Dad, can’t remember the context….thing is we never learn without making mistakes x
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🙂
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Great impression. I must try doing that sometime.
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It’s fun to experiment with art……x
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yep it’s fun
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Cheers
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