Self portrait in acrylic

Hey, not much has happened in the past week. I forced myself to finish my self portrait, which I had to take a step back and say 'no more'. I didn't blend much after my last blog post, I just added a couple of lighter washes to lighten the whole thing (as the shadows were too dark), and added some different colours and strokes to my hair. The picture below looks lighter than it does in real life, and I've managed to give myself a massive double chin!!


Self portrait, 5 x 7" acrylic on canvas paper



Reference photo, taken about 8 years ago

 I'm practising on my tablet every weekday now, I take it into work and on my half hour lunch break I just practise. On the below I'm using a photo I've taken of a statue. At first I was trying to block in areas of colour like one of the techniques I've learned in Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain by Betty Edwards, but then I realised I was struggling to find the edges of the statue, so I've drawn some line art to help:

In regards to the tasks I set myself for accountability last week let's see what did & didn't do:

Finish my self portrait - done
Actively participate in an active art forum - not done, I had a lot going on last week
Critique at least one piece of work - not done for same reasons above, although I feel this is a bigger priority than the task above
Try to promote my blog at least once - done, but not how I intended, I cheated and posted it to Twitter, I feel like I should post it on an art forum
Start a graphic design piece for my portfolio - not done

My tasks for this week will be to do the ones above I didn't do last week. Also if anyone knows how I  manage to duplicate my blog post please let me know!