I tried drawing a self portrait today. To be exact, I drew nine of them. I really didn’t want to give up. I hate giving up.
But after much sketching, not one really looked like me.
One came out looking like a very old version of me. There was a sort of zombie-like one. Another bore a striking resemblance to Madonna. I even doodled my dinner and dessert, inspired by the saying, ‘you are what you eat.’
I thought in a try or two I could doodle a quick self portrait. Total folly. It’s much more difficult than I anticipated, an exercise I found to be both humbling and awkward. The pursuit of self-portraiting is not for the faint of heart.
This post is part of Think Kit by SmallBox
Today’s prompt: “Draw a self portrait. Get as abstract or as real as you like.”