Serving as both a fun project and a locomotion behind building stronger habits for practicing faces, I’ve decided to create multiple series of trading cards (4 inches x 3 inches) based on the Instagram selfies/photos of my friends. I find that, whenever confined to a smaller space than usual, my senses of what feels right when portraying the character of a face, sharpen. On a card, for example. Here’s to hoping I can finish enough of these to line the molding that runs along my apartment’s walls, just beneath the ceiling. How’s that for a benchmark?
From left to right, top to bottom: Andy, Ricky, Yiwei, Kadie and Lizzy. (Instagram Buddies Trading Cards: Series #1); Pen, colored pencil, markers & acrylic paint on 4x3 inch cards of Strathmore toned tan mixed media paper)
"Instagram Buddies" Trading Cards: Series #1
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