The 6th Try

Repetition is key.

This holds true meaning for different things. When I was in my English class during college, I remembered feeling grateful that a certain lesson has been ingrained in my mind since the topic was taught each year from grade school until I graduated in high school.

In life, fate has a playful way of teaching us a lesson when we're too stubborn to learn it. We'll experience a few heartaches. We go through different struggles only to end up facing the same lesson.

There's no difference in drawing. I'm no expert. I'm just only a beginner, but I know this much.

In my last post, I motivated myself to practice even when I feel like I don't want to. I think it is paying off, albeit rather slowly.

The 6th Try

Eyes - there's something drawing me to practice sketching eyes, so I've decided to draw a series of this interesting part of our face. I want to show how I started from the first try:

1st Attempt

The day I received my pencil set, I tried to draw straight from my imagination. There are a lot of learning points, from the pupil to the eyelashes. The eyebrows are pretty messy, too.

2nd Attempt

For this one, I decided to draw Red Velvet's Irene. I'm sure it did not go well (lol). However, you can see a little bit of improvement especially in the eye balls.

3rd Attempt

I became frustrated in my last try so I decided to get help from a drawing book - Barber and Smith's "Essential Guide to Drawing: A Practical and Inspirational Workbook."

As you can observe, it's now pretty decent, but there are still hard lines. Still not too realistic

_{(I'm eyeing to draw realistic portraits in the future. A girl can dream.)}

4th & 5th Attempts

I went to an old friend named Pinterest and looked for eye drawing exercises. I found one and tried it, but the result didn't look identical to the picture.

Latest Attempt

So for my last attempt (at least for yesterday), I decided to draw from a real photo with clear details. Fortunately, I still have the close up photo I took of @jcdeveza in 2018.