September
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Kinda Sorta
It resembles me enough for my Urban Sketcher compatriots to recognize me. Kinda Sorta.
When I need to sink absolutely into Introvert Recovery Time, drawing and an audiobook are my go-to strategies. I unearthed my Ursula K. Le Guin audio short story collection The Birthday of the World and sank into my little storyboard Moleskine with a multi-color-lead pencil.
- I used a photo because other old-school selfie projects have a slack-jawed, but intense aspect, since I’m staring intently, but express nothing else.
- I permitted some moderate erasing; usually when I draw myself it’s a go-for-broke-no-outline-no-outcome meditation. This was a “scribble” process and took about an hour, hour and half.
- I like how the single, but multi-colored lead continually overlapped into sepia tones in my eyes and lips.
- My eyes are actually a little bigger and closer together, my teeth a little smaller and straighter, and I do have a neck, actually. But my hair has never looked better.
Just a page of in-between-hard-drawings sketches. On the right I used Artgraf water soluable graphite with a brush. Drawing feels so much freer that way. If you haven’t tried it — do! I used my multi-lead colored pencil to add color on top.
Paper Escape Pod 
This is wonderful! I like how your line strokes look very free and active. You’re the one who first told me about The Birthday of the World, and the characters/storylines have remained lodged in my mind for several years now.