13.4.11

Over a year already?

I would say I'm surprised...but I'm not. Resistance [as explained by Seth Godin, Steven Pressfield, and Julia Cameron] uses the most ingenious, most convincing of tactics to get you to shut down the ideas you cook up. ...and it is an asshole about it.

So here we are, Blogger. You and me. Starting over fresh. This time, you should know I'm armed with a DEADLY array of new insights. That's right, no more getting my ass kicked by Resistance. No no. It's time for a little ass kicking of my own. And it started...about three days go.


Three days ago, I was drinking coffee at IHOP. It was probably 3 in the morning [yes, I know. shut up.] when the idea hit me: make a fucking conctract! Yeah, that's what you need to do!

And I did. I made a solemn vow. NAY, an oath. An oath to draw 30 portraits in 30 days. Why? Because I've spent the last several months cramming as many inspirational books, quotes, and interviews with successful people into my head as I could find...and now it's time to put it to use. It's time to practice. Every day. Just like I know I should've been doing this whole time. Except this time, I'm actually doing it. To clarify, I mean, I have actually been drawing and have produced a good bit of work in the past month.

There's no intent if you're doing it already.






So! Here we have the first 3 days of the 30 day challenge:


Day #1 - James Franco!



Day #2 - Jennifer Connelly! [God I wish I weren't so brave...it's soo bad...]



Day #3 - Joseph Gordon Levitt! [I deviated a little from "portrait." I'll legitimately redo him soon.]






Today's portrait is Natalie Portman! Now, I'd already done a Natalie Portman the night I was at IHOP, but I wanted to fix a few parts where I thought I'd messed up. This will be a good opportunity to redeem myself. Post will go up later today!


X-TRA posting coming in the next 30 though. ;]

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