Beautiful Oops

Baby Face, September 13/18

For my drawing, I drew a head with a creepy face floating in the sky. I used a pencil to draw the whole face and smaller details first. After I did that I used a sharpie to trace over the lines I had already drawn. Then I colored it in with colored pencils. After I saw that the ink plot looked like a ponytail I chose to draw a face. But a very creepy face, I wanted to add some humor to my drawing. I tried to make sure the face looked realistic but also cartoony. So I added wrinkles from a real person's face and added it to the drawing. I also tried to make the photo look symmetrical. For example, I tried to make the eyebrows look exactly the same and same with some small details like wrinkles. I left as little space on the face that I could. I wanted most of it to be taken up. I made the mouth very big to take up most of the bottom space and the eyes and nose very big to take up most of the middle space. And the eyebrows were very thick and very high up on the face. Then I added the wrinkles to take up extra space and to add more of a creepy look. At first, I did have much detail for a creepy face. I only had a couple of wrinkles and not as many smaller details. Then I added bigger ears and very uneven teeth. I also colored the teeth to be yellow. I also added the double chin. Then I added even smaller details like creases on wrinkles and the small hairs that get pulled back when wearing a ponytail. As I said before, I wanted to add humor to it. I’m not a very good artist so messing up on a drawing of an ugly face would look like it fits in. So the not so even lines fit into the drawing. And I had an idea from cartoons like The Simpsons or family guy where some characters were very detailed and it made them look funny so I wanted to do something like it. I was thinking of making a movie character as I drew it. The project doesn’t have much to do with my actual life. It came from other cartoon characters and some from my own personality. I liked my outcome but after looking at it I wish I could have added more detail into the mouth and teeth. I would have made the tooth look more like realistic instead of real cartoony. And the inside of the mouth is only pink I could’ve added a tongue. And same with my coloring, it wasn’t very good. It looked rushed and didn’t fill in spots that wish I did fill in.