I'm pretty sure it kinda looks like me. This is what I pondered after I paused and realized I had been drawing myself for two hours straight. I notice a few things wrong with the structure (at least I think) and some of the sizing is wrong. I am not sure if the whole downward angle of my face is drawn in right.

And I want to shade! Lines are so boring

An Itch

So, this is me working on my self-portrait. I was finding it really hard to not move my face...I would never make it as a drawing model. One minute I would look up and I would be making a crunchy thinking face and the next I was more relaxed. I decided to keep to all pencil for now, and NOT SHADE AT ALL. Which is really hard for me, because I've got an itch to.

Most of the comments that I got from my group members were along the lines of value. Although a few commented on the lines that I used to draw Kira's shirt and how I used different weights in the gestural lines. The value that I used was mostly in the shading in the face. The shading is mostly correct in the values. The angle of her face is slightly tilted up, so the dark shading under the chin needs to be toned down a little.
What I commented on was the fact that maybe I need to take a step back and start drawing more contour lines. I tend to block in the structure of the facial features, and draw a few shading lines and then start shading from there. I am planning on starting out with only contour lines(and maybe shade from there) with the self-portrait homework, so we will see how it goes.

So I have realized that this is one of my first completed portraits drawn from life. I just had him look down at his computer, which I decided was a hard angle. It was hard for me to understand the angle looking down and the nose was the hardest part for me. The way my brain wants me to draw is more in value, so I get a little screwed up trying to incorporate line and value.

This was my skull that I worked on this weekend. I feel like the back of the skull is shaded in a little better, and there is some good value by the ear. Once again, the teeth need some work, as well as the jawbone on the left side of the jaw. There are a few problems still with value and understanding where the dark shaded spots of the jaw under the eye socket.

The top skull is my first full attempt from class of shading the back of the skull. I think I need to take more time to discover how to shade the back of the head, and feel where the plane differences happen.

The bottom skull is my first shaded 3/4 view. The problem areas are in the bottom of the skull in the jaw. And I need to start putting value into my teeth.