$20 Portraits

I'm saving up to get a new printer/scanner/copier, so that I can make prints and better pictures. So...

From July 27-August 10, I'll be offering digital portraits for only $20. Here's how it works: 1) Send 1 or 2 pictures of yourself to jess.smiley@gmail.com 2) Tell me your favorite animal and/or colors (really!) 3) I'll start your portrait once you've put $20 into my paypal account (I'll email directions). What you get: an 8.5 x 11", CMYK, 300 dpi printable portrait, and a profile pic-sized version. Check out the Facebook group here.

***If you just want a small portrait for your profile pic, I'll do it for free, but paying orders will take priority.

Figgers

I'm working on all sorts of primitive imagery and these are some figures from the "project". Some are drawn with my left hand, some are drawn holding the marker with my fist instead of fingers, some were drawn upside-down.
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I remember, as a kid, there was something deep down inside the drawing that I was attached to. Something that was found in the colours and lines and textures, but also something else---outside of those things. I think part of it was the newness of the whole thing. Testing a pencil on paper and seeing what happened. Its easier now to make calculated lines, but maybe they aren't as packed with life as when lines were new.
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These drawings are some tokens of me approaching drawing as something new.