My Own Attempts at Art: Upper Section of an Elven Man’s Face (lead pencil and colored pencils on paper)

My Own Attempts At Art 1 Minute


I’m not ready to show the rest of this drawing, as I have not yet drawn his mouth. I (mostly) sketched this image out sometime in 1992 or ’93 and only recently started to color him in.

Drawing ears and mouths is so damn challenging for me. Someday, I really should take a human figure drawing class, or at least watch some tutorials on YouTube, as someone suggested I do. It’s the process that counts, I tell myself. At least I’m trying.

Published by The Practical, Fanciful Pagan

I'm gay, married, Pagan, and Progressive-minded from California, raised by hippie intellectuals. I relocated to Massachusetts for graduate school and never moved back to the Left Coast. My day job is that of psychotherapist in private practice, a profession I love with all my heart and a dream fully realized that I'd had since fifteen years of age. These are my rantings, reviews, and reflections. If nothing else, I hope you find something worth reading here and leave the rest.

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2 thoughts on “My Own Attempts at Art: Upper Section of an Elven Man’s Face (lead pencil and colored pencils on paper)”

  1. “Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us.” -Roy Adzak, Sculptor, 1927-1987

    I think it’s what it does not only to the viewer, but also to the creator—a process of becoming for both, of seeing anew.

    “Learning to draw rewires us to see the world differently, to love it more intimately by attending to and coming to cherish its previously invisible details.” -Maria Popova

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