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  • in reply to: Myriam’s 100 Days; portrait, heads #796302
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    Hi @joshuajacobo !  It’s not so important, just a little tiny virtual “medal“ for posting 100 drawings in this website, but it’s a mistery for me why I didn’t get mine. 👉🏼🤔

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    Thank you, Christopher! I’ll try. Maybe some day I even develop a style of my own! 🤞🏼 Keep going you too and have fun. This is mainly about fun.

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    Hi Joshua! I will. Thank you so much.
    By the way, something bad must have happened to my 100 days challenge badge.  Is it lost? 😅

    in reply to: Myriam’s 100 Days; portrait, heads #688774
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    #100 🎉🎈🥳

    For my last drawing, I’ve chosen Samuel Menashe, an underrated poet. Someone said about his poems:  he “can compress an attitude to life that has an immense history into three lines.” He died some years ago. I recommend you to read about him, not just his poems but about his life.

    Pity us
    Beside the sea
    On the sands
    So briefly

    I didn’t struggled with this drawing as with yesterday’s. I don’t know why is it but sometimes I simply can’t do it.

    Thank you for all the comments with advices which has helped me a lot.

    in reply to: Myriam’s 100 Days; portrait, heads #688642
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    Hi, Christopher! 🙂

    Your impression is correct, I never wait, I draw quickly and upload quickly.

    Thanks so much for your message, it’s been very helpful in so many ways. Sometimes I wonder why I draw if I will never reach the level I want. Some other times, I’m ashamed of having thought that. My daughter just came in a few minutes ago and told me : Are you sure you enjoy drawing? I said, Yes, why? “Because you are always complaining about how badly you do it”.
    I will miss your messages! I’m sad too.
    Maybe I start a new challenge, but not right away as I am quite angry with myself because of the last drawings. I am not very happy with them.  It’s like going backwards.
    Thank you and I hope we keep in touch!
    Myriam

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    I wish I hadn’t uploaded #99. I think I was making an effort to do a good drawing and when that happens I just do these awful things. She is cross-eyed and everything in it makes me cringe.  The mouth, the eyes, the shadows, the hair,…  I can’t understand what happened. #98 and #99 are the worst I’ve uploaded I think. I am embarrassed. Maybe #100 is even worse.

    in reply to: Myriam’s 100 Days; portrait, heads #687382
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    #99

    This is my daughter. I struggled with this one and erased a million times. As a result it looks messy. And it’s number 99…

    I shouldn’t erase.

    I wonder why do I still feel so afraid of drawing if this is what I like to do more!?

    I must say in the paper it looks better than in the picture. Why is it? Is it like when you see a huge full astonishing moon and you try to capture it with your camera and you see this little white dot in the photo instead of what you see with your eyes. Not that I see an astonishing drawing…. but a little better than this it is.

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    Thank you, Joshua. It’s an interesting comment but I still don’t understand it. My fault. I’ll think about it. Thanks anyway.

    in reply to: Myriam’s 100 Days; portrait, heads #685424
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    Ten minutes later, I can see the eye on the right is too high! So it’s not better than yesterday’s. 🙁

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    #98

    This is slightly better that yesterday’s, isn’t it? At least right now I am not 😬 cringing at the sight of it.  😁 What do you think?? Maybe in half an hour I will be wondering why did I uploaded it?
    I have discovered thanks to NMA‘s teachers  that you need a lot of concentration to do a proper head drawing. Maybe one never stops needing that kind of high concentration even if you have drawn a million heads. Vilppu says so.
    One just learn to see better and better with time. You don’t realize it, it just happens.
    For me, the most difficult part is the unlearning. You need to unlearn a lot to be able to do this right. That’s why Art should be compulsory at school and history or maths should be forbidden. 🙂

    Sir Ken Robinson has died. 😢 If you haven’t watched it yet, go and watch his TED Talk now, please!  Wonderful stuff.
    It’s called “Do schools kill creativity?”

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    Hi, Lizzomatic! Thanks so much. Yes I have to experiment with different kinds of paper. Normally I draw  over a regular sketchbook paper but I should try a better paper without being afraid of spoiling it!

    As for the prismacolor, yes, I have tried it.  I don’t really know if I like it, I need to try it more. I must say I don’t know what pencil or what paper I prefer. I should spend a week drawing with all kinds of pencils. My house is almost like an art shop so I will 😄

     

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    #97

    This is from a model I found in Pinterest. I did it too quickly. Not very proud of it. I would like to draw more freely. Now I see the jaw is not right, like many other things.

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    Hi, Joshua! Yes, almost 100!
    What does it mean the head “appears a bit deep”??
    True what you say about the hair, thank you!

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    #96

    Graphite and charcoal. A model from the internet. Happy Saturday everyone!

    in reply to: Myriam’s 100 Days; portrait, heads #681072
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    I meant “look”.

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