A Mad Christmas

I had a very sober Christmas. I tried hard to be very merry and happy… but blah somehow I think being sad is emotionally more fulfilling than being happy?! umm… weird right? o.O

Well, as a Christmas present to myself I thought I’d sketch Kurt Cobain =D o.O Out of the blue, I felt very sad for Kurt =( Well, I was on a heavy dose of music and strummed for the first time in about a year, so…

Anyway, drawing Kurt was a disaster =( (but i vow to improve).

What I learned/realized from drawing Kurt Cobain:

  1. Have to do necessary homework before committing to draw something so complex =( I never bothered to look up on ‘how to draw the human hair’. I ended up giving Kurt anime styled hair o.O and while drawing him I thought he looked like Urahara Kisuke from Bleach, which might’ve influenced the hair.
  2. Not enough practice on lines and figure drawing =(
  3. Bad nose job. When I first gave Kurt an outline, his nose looked alright. But after finishing the sketch, the nose became just too long and his face got compressed and he looks constipated =( More practice!
  4. I used CHARCOAL!(along with pencil). Never in my life I’ve tried charcoal for sketching, and I thought of starting that by sketching Cobain?? o.O How dumb can I be??

Anyway, the outcome was very unexpected. I’m glad it turned out this way after seeing what it looked like in the beginning =P. Completely sad and unorganized!

Anyway, I vowed to improve, right? That’s a promise =)

PS: I just noticed that I haven’t shaded the collar o.O I’m gonna leave it like that as a symbol of my impatience =( grr… I’m definitely gonna improve!