
How do I begin? Well, -
I own everything in this illustration except for the face, haha. There’s my new hairstyle, new dress, and the Zenit-E – a Russian made camera – which I found while wandering like a lost child in the quaint antique shop at the corner of the street in Prague. Not exactly new, in fact it’s the opposite, but I can say that film shall be something new for me to explore and unravel.
And I wonder why is it that this piece was a breeze when the other WIP on a emotive portrait of Sho from TQS, even with some major references, I’ve been retouching for the umpteenth time has never worked itself out. So I concluded, looking at some old artwork, that it might be easier to conjure up some random face than imagining a particular one and willing my drawing to turn out exactly like it. Probably since it isn’t a direct copy of a certain reference image (like observational sketching), I tend to keep comparing whatever I have, but doing so only leaves me unsatisfied because it’s so hard to hit the mark. The blame goes to none other than my inadequate knowledge of anatomy, lighting, perspective and stuff.
Just for the record, there are five(5) WIP files sitting on my desktop which I think I will never finish. Not in the next quarter most likely.
Anyhow, details -

The long weekend is almost over and I stole some time off to draw, despite the nagging reminder that I should have been doing work just so it would alleviate, if anything much, the load I foresee in the coming week. Weeks and months have flurried by without much of a break in between; there’s not really enough time to go by anymore, but thankfully money has never been of any issue, haha.
Due to the current situation, for the whole of this month I didn’t go out (weekends too) which means being able to cut what’s normal of my monthly expenditure by maybe 70%, but weirdly enough, I managed to save quite a considerable amount, yet I CAB TO WORK EVERYDAY WTF. Don’t know how it ended up this way since a month and a half ago. This is. Downright. Decadence.
You know, I ought to put an end to it. Ugh.