I’ve decided I’m going to record my assignments for my art class, so here is the first one, the quintessential first art project, “Self-Portrait of Eye” drawn from life. I think anyone who has ever taken a beginning art class has done this or something similar. It was fun to do, holding my little mirror and looking back and forth to try and get the details right. I’ve always sketched bits of things from life and been able to get a result that looks passably like the model, so this was a good introductory project for me. It will be the next few, when I have to come up with an image from my imagination, that will be challenging.
Anyway, It is done in pencil on illustration board, framed in to be 11×14 in. I think it looks sad, but people have often told me I have “sad” eyes. They definitely are expressive, so there you go. My daughter says I made my lid too heavy and old-looking but pronounced it “good anyway.” I’ll hold onto that because tomorrow I get to put it on the board with all my classmates’ work for “Crits.” That will be fun. I don’t know yet if we critique each other’s work or just listen to the instructor. The instructor seems pretty invested in helping us to actually succeed, so I think it will be good either way.
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