How I draw portraits

How I draw portraits

As I told you in the previous post Im going to post the video of me while I was pencil drawing a picture, so here I am, I wasn't planning to film myself drawing portrait, it's just my brother who took his mobile and starting filming me, he had a bit of a cold that day sorry about that, I'm kind of slow while I am drawing so this video doesn't show the whole process, but I guess you'll get the idea about how I draw portraits. Here is the video

Little update:

This was the first time that I film myself while drawing a portrait, I filmed myself again once more while I was drawing a woman on the wall of my room, those two videos are where you can actually see me drawing, but I have made many other time lapse videos of me pencil drawing portraits. It felt strange to watch myself drawing, I really didn't expect myself to look like that, but then it's never the case, same as when I heard myself singing for the first time, I really didn't like my own voice back then, took me a long time listening to it on different occasions to get used to it, yeah I needed a lot to get used to my own voice. but I guess that it is the case for everyone, most people don't like their own voices when they hear it, there could be a scientific reason behind that, maybe because we usually have higher expectations when it comes to how we sound to the world.

it also happened to me when I made my first short movie, I didn't knew that I make strange facial expression while I'm talking, it felt really weird and creepy, thing that I am still not used to, I think I will need to make few more movies before I can accept the fact that I do make funny expressions (not funny in a comic way). but it's not bad actually, it would help me in my self love journey, I have been through some bad moments when I have doubted myself and my capacities, but now I got over it, and accepting myself just like I am is a part of the process. I think everyone should do that, especially if you are struggling with loving yourself, take pictures of yourself, record yourself or even film yourself in all cases and watch yourself over and over and over, untill you reach a point when you get used to the real you, and you accept yourself just as you are not as what you think you look like.. it's way better than self talk in front of the mirror, just try it, I tried it and it worked for me, I am pretty sure it will work for everyone else. Another thing that helped me is seeing others with way bigger challenges in life, it made me feel grateful for who I am and how I look.