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OH MY GOD THIS WAS SO STRESSFUL!!!!
One of my friends very sweetly asked if I would draw him, so I figured (LIKE A DUMBASS) why not make a day for it? Get ten volunteers among my actual, human, friends to be drawn. And I got, like, thirteen volunteers. So I drew the first 10. Now, something that I told myself at the start of this challenge is that I would do my best, obviously, but if the end result doesn't look exactly like the source image, it's ok!
But these are my real human friends whom I love so I HAD to get it right. Like, I haven't been taking artistic license willy-nilly this whole time, but if someone's eye ends up at a weird angle or something, I have felt pretty comfortable making small changes to the face to make it work, you know? But not this time! Because I wanted to totally accurately recreate their pictures and, man... I ended up with some major hand cramping by the end!
Most of them (notably middle right) chose which photo they wanted recreated. For some of them, I just chose the one I the cutest. Two of my friends (top left) are engaged and both wanted to be drawn, so I picked one of the many adorable photos of them that they've taken together. I also tried really hard to make them all basically the same size, so I am not as crazy about the overall layout.
BUT WHATEVER. IT'S DONE. Click to enlarge!
EDIT: Better scan!
One of my friends very sweetly asked if I would draw him, so I figured (LIKE A DUMBASS) why not make a day for it? Get ten volunteers among my actual, human, friends to be drawn. And I got, like, thirteen volunteers. So I drew the first 10. Now, something that I told myself at the start of this challenge is that I would do my best, obviously, but if the end result doesn't look exactly like the source image, it's ok!
But these are my real human friends whom I love so I HAD to get it right. Like, I haven't been taking artistic license willy-nilly this whole time, but if someone's eye ends up at a weird angle or something, I have felt pretty comfortable making small changes to the face to make it work, you know? But not this time! Because I wanted to totally accurately recreate their pictures and, man... I ended up with some major hand cramping by the end!
Most of them (notably middle right) chose which photo they wanted recreated. For some of them, I just chose the one I the cutest. Two of my friends (top left) are engaged and both wanted to be drawn, so I picked one of the many adorable photos of them that they've taken together. I also tried really hard to make them all basically the same size, so I am not as crazy about the overall layout.
BUT WHATEVER. IT'S DONE. Click to enlarge!
EDIT: Better scan!
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Date: 2019-01-29 07:08 am (UTC)From:Re: art
Date: 2019-01-29 09:18 am (UTC)From:I hadn't drawn as many teeth in my life as I did today. ;_;
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Date: 2019-01-29 08:27 am (UTC)From:remember that young man from... day 2 i wanna say? the one you spent extra time on, which made him look better than the other 9 on his page?
all of these are at least as good as that one.
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Date: 2019-01-29 09:18 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2019-01-29 01:38 pm (UTC)From:i do understand the feeling, though, gift art tends to be at least a little nerve-wracking
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Date: 2019-01-30 02:49 am (UTC)From:Thankfully, the reaction has been completely positive, so I think they're all happy with it and the others who wanted me to draw them but exceeded the 10-person limit for the day's work still want me to draw them as day 10.5 once the challenge is over. :)