Self portrait

[SamDayWeddingPainter]

Marvelous portrait. Working from a mirror is so much better than from a photo— its the real thing. (But it sure doesn't look like you're 40! 29, maybe—)

[ilardt]

Thx Sam, 41 now alas, I should now paint an update

[Luciebcreativity]

Wonderful ! I tried to do a self portrait once - in pastel - but found that as I was going through the day - the light would change in the little mirror I was using - it was hard to get consistency hehe -- you did a great job !

[ilardt]

Thanks Lucieb, it was very challenging and I think my stern look tells how hard I was finding it !

[ilardt]

Those are not "guys": they were aliens :-)

[Sycra]

Awesome work. It turned out great.

[ilardt]

Thanks Sycra, as you can see I struggled a lot with drawing: from a mirror one cannot measure, also while observing a feature you don't realize you are actually moving away from the original position.

[Sycra]

I know exactly what you mean. I think painting self portraits has got to be the hardest thing to do. Dunno how guys like Rembrandt and Valesquez did it.