COMtest:My Hilarious Journey to Drawing My First Portrait 😂

Good day to all comedians, and comedy lovers in the house, really, who doesn't love anything that makes them laugh? So quick story on how I ended up here and how I am making my first post by participating in a contest. I found myself here @comedyopenmic while going through my @ecency feed then I saw comedy open mic, it sounded weird then I decided to check out the community as a whole, and checking I did. Frankly, my face started to hurt from all the laughing I did checking out various hilarious posts. Then I stumbled on a contest post, at that point I knew I had a hilarious story up my sleeves and I decided to share it by participating, probably I can snatch the reward even as a first-timer who knows. So here goes my hilarious story on how I made my first portrait, which was a long time ago. Hope it makes you laugh👇👇

Image by Arek Socha from Pixabay

Ah, the first portrait. It's lke a ritual of passage for any aspiring artist. And let me tell you, my first portrait was a hot mess.

I had all the supplies - pencils, erasers, paper, and a dream. I was ready to unleash my inner Picasso and create a masterpiece that would rival the Mona Lisa. But, as it would be, my inner Picasso was more like a toddler with a crayon.

I started with what you would call the eyes, or at least I tried to. They ended up looking like two black holes staring back at me, void of any life or emotion. I attempted to fix them, but only made things worse. Now, my subject looked like they had been in a staring contest with Medusa and lost.

Next up, the nose. I figured this couldn't be too diffucult, right? Wrong. It looked like a crooked carrot that had been stepped on one too many times. I attempted to straighten it out, but it just made it look even more deformed like a nose job gone wrong.

And don't even get me talking about the mouth. It looked like it had been drawn by a kinder-gartener who was more or less interested in finger-painting than portrait drawing. The lips looked more lopped than lipped and the teeth looked like they belonged to a cartoon character.

But, as they would most likely say, "practice makes perfect". Or in my case, practice makes less terrible. I kept at it, and slowly but surely, my portraits started to look less like alien creatures and more like actual people.

Now, I'm not saying I'm the upcoming Van Gogh or anything, but I'm pretty sure my portraits won't at least scare small children anymore. So, if you're just trying portrait out for the first, even second or third time, don't be discouraged. You know, we all begin to start somewhere righ,t no doubt, and who knows, maybe one day you'll produce a masterpiece that will hang in a museum for centuries. Or maybe not. But either way, it's all about amusing and expressing yourself. And maybe investing in some art classes.

Thanks for reading. Hope you were able to let out some laugh. Lets know in the comment section

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