This afternoon, I continued the little crazy-making exercise I started yesterday, a self-portrait. Any self-portrait is quite enough to make me crazy but I am attempting this one on my iPad with the Procreate app. Yesterday I began from memory, then used some recent photos that my son took while we talked on Facetime. But there were several photos (and several variations on my expression) so I was getting a bit confused. Today I came across a picture of myself at 35 and the position of my head and the facial expression were pretty close to what I had in the portrait. So I decided to use that old photo as a guide to feature shape and placement, and then add the changes of age to that. I think that helped in that I am more confident that the features are basically correct. But just as I ran out of time (and battery), I realized that the facial features are set a bit too far apart, which is throwing the proportions off. So I can see a family resemblance to some of my cousins, but it's not quite me yet. I will try to fix that tomorrow. To be continued. . .
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