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The rare lost poster artwork from the 1972 Bollywood remake of Masculin Féminin.

Amelia, 15 

Copied from a photo in the book: Girl Culture by Lauren Greenfield

Gouache round 2 on paper made for dry media, one day we’ll get it right gouache..

Two sketches today, in a feeble attempt to make up for the days I’ve missed. The first is of my friend Angie and I (I’m on the right) and the second of my friend Alyssa. I’d link the references, but I’m pretty sure they’re not on the internet.

faces of the moment.

I actually did a few things today. I decorated a shirt for my friend Daz’s birthday, and also took some really nice pictures of her birthday party. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find the only camera in my house, so I couldn’t take a picture of shirt after I made it this morning, and I took the pictures at the party with her camera. XP I think she’ll like them though.

 Anyway, I did a sight drawing so I would have something to show for today. Unfortunately, my scanner likes to darken things. Those background sketch lines are less visible in real life. Reference.

tonight i’m tired!
i’m glad to be making things every day…

I made dinner too; mackerel, rice, broccoli rabe. it hit the spot. But i was so hungry i forgot to take a photo of it. mm mmm.

Title: Mmm… candy!
Description: Homer Simpson portrait done in gummy candies
Inspirations: Today is National Gumdrop Day and Matt Groening’s birthday (1954)

A portrait of one of my favorite wordsmiths and thinkers, J. M. Coetzee. I’ve been loving his writing even more than usual lately.

today i made clones of myself:

i have made these before and find them to be fascinating to look at, as well as fun to make. the idea is to take a portrait, preferably one that is shot from the front and evenly lit—you might have to rotate the picture a little if the head is tilted. then split the photo in half and flip each side horizontally and match to the corresponding side—so 2 right halves to form one face and 2 left halves to form another. most people will have a dominant side that has stronger, bigger features, and a less dominant side that will look more sensitive. here are some more clones that i have made of myself in the past.

Today i made 2 drawings as my things of the day - the dude has big hair and the rhino always walks downhill.

Sight drawing of this. Despite the facial distortion (i.e. the head and eyes are way too big) I really like how it came out.

P.S. That’s a peach in the corner, not an apple. I usually color it in, which makes it easier to tell.

tried again at the neopastels.. still not sure we have a future together.

This thing of today is a silly toy designed to contort the appearance of the guy in the image - you shake the picture gently and change the shape of the nose.
Here are 2 shots:

so this dude http://www.thing-a-day.com/author/rowstyles/ has been putting up some mad dope fonts for days.. which in turn made me want to do the same. Unfortunately all I got is this one sad little guy:

And even more tragic-  I tried neopastels for the first time on a portait with disasterous results. The garish neon bright colors I had to choose from didn’t help any as I attempted to approximate skin tones. All that being said, here she is anyway:

Finally, I put Margaret in a sweater mostly to amuse myself. She, on the other hand, doesn’t look amused at all. Since this was probably my most successful attempt at anything the whole damn night I think I’ll post it:

the days go by and i don’t have so much time to make stuff. i think she looks vaguely russian…

A portrait of my fake pet rabbit Freddie sitting in a table. I like the way his paw is supposed to be posed like he’s grooming himself but instead it looks like he’s waving it towards himself in a “come on, yeah come on, I could take you” motion. Freddie has swagger and style.