Since around 2019 or early 2020, I stopped drawing faces mainly because I enjoy scratching them out and seeing the effect of it made me realize how boring showing faces in my works are. I still think that's the case haha but you know, skills can be forgotten so I tried drawing one again to see if they are still any good or not.
Obviously the title is just exaggerated and it seems like I can still can, but they aren't as good as before. It's hard af for me now since I focus so much on the body and hands in my recent works.
As usual, I start with using my own photo as a reference. This isn't for vanity btw, I just don't like using other people's photos especially not when posting it on Hive. Although they are okay as long as you don't claim that it's yours, I just want to be as original as I can.
Besides I like this photo particularly cos the lighting is easier to draw haha.
I really struggled on the proportion of the faces since I haven't done so in like 2 years. Also the skin tone too, since I always just use a black and white for the figures haha. I did a lot of changes and as you can see, it's not that close to the reference photo although I can see it is looking quite like me.
It should actually be easy for me to draw my face since I've done it a hundred times but this one I really struggle with, and I understand why.
Then I used the pencil to add those shading to have some nice effect and also to draw details. I like that it was slowly getting better already. My lips and eyes don't quite look like that but whatever, this was just a fun drawing anyway so nothing serious. :D
Here's the result once again. I spent probably 3 hours on it. I did miss this painterly effect. I do that a lot when I paint on a physical canvas.
Overall it's still not a bad result although not as good as what I expected it to be. Colors were nice anyway despite the proportion.
In my future works I probably would put faces too but I'm still obsessed with the scribbles on top of them and I enjoy them pretty much haha.