Faces – 2

Continuing with my series of faces / portraits, here’s another one I made a while back –

I still don’t have a style of my own, and it’s fun to create these faces however I want to (or rather, to create them however they end up turning out. 😉 ) I don’t create them as much as I’d like to, though, mostly because I forget about this creative outlet, haha…

When I start out with a face, I usually experience the blank page syndrome and never know what to draw, and that’s not fun. 😛 Once I get past that, however, it gets pretty therapeutic–especially the coloring and shading part.

I made an initial rough drawing with a pencil, then used watercolor pencils with a water brush pen to add color. I followed this with more coloring using oil based pencils for highlights and shadow, and added finishing touches using gel pens, fineliners, and multiliners.

For the background in this page, I used watercolors again, which ended up warping the paper quite a bit. I followed that with stamps and dye inks for some extra pop. I use paper masks to prevent the stamping from getting onto the focal subject, but sometimes it does smudge. I usually ignore it if it happens. 🙂

Check out all faces in this series!

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