A Brief Hiatus

I've been post-less for almost two weeks now due to a family crisis and most likely won't be back for some time to come (hopefully not too long though). There is just no way, given the circumstances I am dealing with, that I can focus enough to actually write something worth reading. I hope you'll bear with me during this difficult time and will still be here waiting for me when I return. Take care and much peace to you all!

Ugly Self Portrait

This sketch has actually made some people, upon seeing it, physically flinch and ask why the hell I made myself look like this. It's truly hideous, due to drawing myself in very bad lighting late at night. I didn't set out to make a drawing of me looking gaunt and hollowed out with deep facial crevices, black circles beneath my eyes, and a face that's horribly narrow, but that's what you get when you use severely unflattering overhead lighting in the wee hours and you really don't care. Beauty? Not so much, but character to beat the band, if you think those faces in the opening montage of Night Gallery way back when have "character." Clearly that's the image I'm channeling here. Give me some more bad lighting and cue the spooky music!

Ugly Self Portrait, graphite on paper, 2011