Days 21 to 29 of the #29faceschallenge2016

I have had a few busy days and I've completely lost touch with the challenge. Fortunately, I had prepared a few faces should this had been the case.

These faces are part of a very special new project that I would like to do. I watch (too) many series and I sometimes get confused with some of the characters. So I decided to draw them and write a small blurb to remind me of who they were and what achievements they accomplished.

This used to happen to me in real life with real people that I would meet at the university or at work so I used to do some cheat sheets of my own that involved drawing people and their various quirks and writing their names next to their pictures. Believe it or not, this worked wonderfully and I never forgot a name or a face!...

So here are the rest of my 29 faces for the challenge:

Day 20 of the #29faceschallenge

Day 20 was inspired by my daughter who had just come back from school and was very excited so she told me all about her day during lunch time...

Days 18 & 19 of the #29faceschallenge

Playing catching up again!...

Days 16 & 17 - #29faceschallenge

Days 14 and 15 of the #29faces challenge

I have been running slightly late and changing my style a bit and experimenting. Faces really are a challenge for me, especially when trying to do realistic faces. Still, it's great practice and enables me to find what works and what doesn't. Here are the faces of the past 2 days:

#29faceschallenge - Day 13

Here is my offering for Day 13. It is oddly satisfying to see black hair on Sailor Moon! :)

Day 12 of the #29faceschallenge

This is my interpretation of Katana.

I have always wanted to do some cosplay especially since there are so many wonderful female superheroes but I sick as a seamstress and it can get quite pricey (respect to those who continuously blow me away with their own flawless interpretations of superheroes!). So instead of ruining and stressing myself trying to look like one of my heroes, I just decided to draw myself as some of my favourite characters! :)

Let's face it: who wouldn't want to have Katana's mad skills with her... katana?

Days 10 and 11 of the #29faceschallenge

Day 10 is a watercolour painting I did on the go. I really had some trouble finding the right shade for the skin and this is something I need to work on.

Day 11 was inspired by Suicide Squad that we (finally) went to see this past Saturday. I really loved it and it was tough deciding which character was the best. I had already done Harley Quinn a little while back so it was time to pick someone else.

#29faceschallenge - Day 9

I'm all caught up! Here is day 9 inspired by my afternoon at the sauna...

#29faceschallenge - Days 7 & 8

Done really quickly while some pasta was on the stove... This year, I find myself being very late and disorganized for the challenge. Or maybe I have taken on too many challenges and tasks (29 Faces, Hobonichi, Bullet Journal...).

Still, here are my offerings for these two days:

#29faceschallenge - Days 5 and 6

And here is my offering for days 5 and 6:

This is a friend of mine and her son. I never realised how much easier it is to draw faces of people you know and like...

#29faceschallenge - Day 4

I inspired myself from Charles Schultz with this face of the day!...

#29faceschallenge - Day 3

And here is day 3 of the 29 Faces Challenge!

Probably the last horror movie portrait I do for the challenge with Sadako from the Ring. Sadako is definitely my favourite between her and Kayako. I think she's creepier and I love her hair too... I have read somewhere that they had done a movie called Sadako vs Kayako...

I have been playing around with my brand new black half pan that I bought yesterday. I have read that this is not a popular colour to use so I was a bit reluctant to use it but I thought I would give it a go and see how it worked. I have to say it worked out really well and it's becoming my favourite one along the Payne's Grey pans...

#29faceschallenge - Day 2

For day 2, I was inspired by Ju-On: The Grudge and decided to paint Toshio. This is the first time I manage to paint someone creepy looking.

In the process, I managed to discover a love for painting with a limited amount of shades and the darker, the better. This is definitely something I'm going to explore further.

#29faceschallenge - Day 1

The 29 Faces Challenge is back! It runs all through September and you need to draw or paint one face a day (or less if you are not able to) all through the month.

I was caught a bit off-guard and I realised the challenge had started only when Day 1 was almost over, so I quickly grabbed my Hobonichi and a brush and just did a quick sketch.

Here is a link with all the details for the challenge: http://29faces.blogspot.de/p/september-2016.html

#29faces Challenge: The Last Leg of the Journey!

Even though I haven't posted for the last few days and updated on my progress with the challenge, I have continued to draw and paint my daily faces and I am very pleased to say that I have completed the challenge. It has been a challenge particularly for me since faces are not my forte. I have seen myself grow in confidence and be inspired as time progressed and I am very proud of what I have achieved.

Along the way, I have met extremely talented artists and I have seen mind blowing works of art. I am truly humbled to have been a part of this vibrant community and will definitely miss it.

Without further ado, here are the last faces of the challenge:

Day 23:

I went back to the Evil Queen. This is one of my favourite characters from the Disney movies. It was really interesting drawing an older lady as the features are so much more complex than those of a younger lady.

Day 24:

Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes. After drawing the complex Evil Queen, I needed to draw someone cute for a change!

Day 25:

 After watching Brave with my daughter, I just HAD to draw Merida. She is definitely one of my favourite Disney Princess. I just love how unconventional she is and how free she is. However, I felt too chicken to tackle that glorious hair of hers and I was too afraid not to do it justice so I picked a picture of her with her hair imprisoned in her headdress.

Day 26:

I had just finished to do this sketch and was not really planning on colouring it but after posting it on the group page, I decided that I hadn't done it justice so I went back and coloured it. I have to say that I'm particularly proud of the skin colour I used, especially for the cheeks. Mixing colours in watercolour is something I'm just starting to do. Because I'm too lazy to go to town and get some flesh coloured pans, I tried to use what I had in hand, and make some flesh colour of my own... This is one of the rare cases where laziness paid!

Day 27:

Back to a quick and easy sketch of Leela from Futurama. Nice and easy with bold colours (and my very own brand of purple that I mixed all on my own!)

Day 28:

This is one character I have been meaning to draw for a long time. It's Arale from the manga Dr Slump.

Day 29:

This is a completely new and original creation. I wanted to do something big for the last day and I hesitated between winging it or picking some very elaborate sketch and in the end, I winged it. One of my favourite artists is Tim Burton. I love how eternally startled his characters always are. The lines are often simple but always effective. I more or less inspired myself from someone I knew a long time ago and I put a spin on him. I am desperate to practice nebulae and this was the perfect occasion for it. It was a bit tricky staying within my lines but I did it. And I had to add a raven because I'm all about ravens. Somehow, I feel that the background should not be white and I might change it at some point. This is by far the biggest portrait I did (A3!).

So this is it for this challenge!

Catching up on the #29faces challenge!

I am way behind on updating the blog and I am missing days 20 to 22, so here they are:

Day 20:

Day 21:

Day 22:

Days 18 and 19: #29faces challenge

Here are my offerings for days 18 and 19 of the #29faces challenge:

Spontaneous fountain pen drawing

Gimp and Inkscape collaboration

Days 16 and 17 of the #29faces challenge

Here are my two sketches for days 16 and 17.

Day 15 - #29faces challenge

This is actor Sung Kang from the Fast and the Furious movies, eating chips as usual ;)