And so I come to the end! I have finished all 100 ink and watercolour illustrations of faces. I admit I am relieved. It has been very challenging to make time enough to keep up with this series and (confession) it started to feel like a chore at least a score of drawings ago.
Things I have learned from this series – aside from improving my ability with constructing faces, even just a smidge – are that I very much enjoy working in series because it provides me with focus and extra drive but that setting myself the goal of a specific number, especially 100, now feels like too much pressure; I also like working with minimal palettes, maybe not always monochrome but close – though I do also like explosions of colour from time to time; and I like to keep faces pretty monochrome with a little splash of colour – and not just because I struggle with mixing decent flesh tones.
For this final illustration, I decided to echo one of my favourite drawings from the series, Sunset, so I dubbed this one Sunrise and used the same colour scheme and feel.
Thank you, dear readers, for following along with me as I worked through this series and for encouraging me every step of the way. I truly do appreciate all the cheerleading and support. Thank you!
PS This blog might go into stasis for a bit while I take a break from working on a series project and work to make my schedule offer me more art time. In the meanwhile, I will continue to post about my mixed media experiments and art journaling over on my personal blog, A Pict in PA.