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Self-Portrait
Saturday, March 20, 2010 | Permalink | Comments [0]
For those of you who follow me on Twitter, you already know that I was knocked off my feet this week by a pretty bad cold. It probably didn’t help that I mixed up the Claritin and Sudafed in the medicine cabinet. Well, at least I didn’t have to deal with allergies on top of everything else.
Anyway, before I got sick, I had been dabbling with a new way of approaching my work in Photoshop. I’ve always relied on a pencil sketch when I work in the program and I wanted to see how things might go if I tried to just paint digitally. No pencil sketches or scanning of any kind — just me and the brush tool and a couple of layers.
So far, I really like the results. Its stylistically somewhat different from the work I’ve done up until now, but it’s really starting to bring me the same kind of pleasure I get from oil painting, but without requiring a ventilated studio space and expensive paints. I’m excited to see where this goes.
I thought for today I’d share a little self-portrait I did yesterday — it’s a bit of a caricature, albeit a subtle one. There’s another piece that I previewed on Twitter the other day, but I’d like to fiddle around with that one a bit more before posting it here.
If you’d like to see me turn into a zombie, I used this self-portrait for Friday’s Haiku Comics.