For anyone new here this is a regular place to come and inspire, be inspired, but above all to share our portrait progress week by week. Every Friday at 10 am (BST) a new Show Your Face blog post goes live with the linky to add your blog post or online gallery picture to with any portrait work you have been doing.
Your face can be drawn, doodled, painted, stitched, be made using any materials and can be any style, all I ask is that it is your artwork. If you use templates, stencils or stamps to build the face anatomy then they should be ones you have made yourself and not someone else's.
Finished pieces, works in progress or retro posts (i.e. older works, not from this week) are all welcome, so come join in and spread the word on your blog/ social media outlets. Use hashtag #ShowYourFace if you like!
As is now tradition I will kick off this week's face sharing with something I tried this week. It's a quick and fun exercise that you might like to try too. I gave myself the challenge to doodle a selection of faces, the only rule was to make each one different from the ones before.
I took a page in my art journal and used small watercolour washes to section off the page. Then I grabbed some ballpoint pens of all colours and doodled away.
It is amazing how it doesn't take many lines to form a recognisable face does it?
If you fancy having a go at this little challenge to yourself then go ahead and let me know how it goes! I would love to see.
This would make a great warm up exercise don't you think? I shall definitely being do more of these, I can already see a couple of faces that I might work up into bigger studies for fun.
Right, so...
Over To You...
Link your faces artwork and spread the word on your blog and/or social media, hashtag #ShowYourFace for those of you that use them.
Catch you later Face-Artinators!
Kim
ps. Some other places you might want to link your work to: Art journal pages link up with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's Art Journal Everyday post. Paint work link it up at Paint Party Friday. For items using something Old, New and Digital then go link it up on the Old, New and Digital Too challenge.
Great idea this week, Kim! I shall definitely have a play with this in the coming week! I love the concept. xx
ReplyDeleteThanks Julie, I would love to see your face doodles if you do them! Do let me know :) Kx
DeleteLove your face doodles! Valerie
ReplyDeleteThanks Valerie, they are super fun to do :) Kx
DeleteLove your doodled faces Kim, so very effective and enjoy the free style, a great exercise!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks HuGs Kim x
Thanks Kim, it was a fun exercise :) Loving your Paperbabe face template and stamps combos, hope they are going like hot cakes :) Kx
DeleteThis looks like fun, so I'll need to come back and link up sometime. Blessings!
ReplyDeletePlease do, it will be great to have you along in the share. Thanks for popping in. Kim
DeleteThis is a brilliant idea Kim! I'm def. going to do this-and yes, I'll link it up when I do:)
ReplyDeleteOh brilliant :) Can't wait to see :) :) Kx
DeleteThis is such a fun project, Kim. These faces are all so lovely. :)
ReplyDeleteThank you Meihsia :) Glad you like them! Kx
Deletelove your faces! I especially love the funky colours you played with too. You're so right about it not taking lots of line to recognize a face. i'll be back for a visit. xx
ReplyDeleteThanks Pauline! Glad you like it and do pop back, it would be good to see you again! Come and add one of your beautiful faces if you felt like it, I know the share would like them :) Kx
DeleteLove this idea. What a fun way to doodle faces. Will have to try it.
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you like it Beverley and do hope you have a go, it is great fun! Kx
DeleteLove all your little faces I've done something similar but more cloistered together without watercolour...I'm going to try this one day...Good job...so fun!
ReplyDeleteHugs Giggles
Ooo that sounds interesting, did you blog it? Can I have a peek? Kx
DeleteThis is such a clever exercise! You have really started something with your faces, Kim!
ReplyDeleteLucy x
LOL! I know Lucy, it was a bit of a surprise, I had no idea so many folks would be interested in sharing their face work when I started! But I'm super glad they are :) Fancy linking something up? You would be more than welcome to join in :) Kx
Deletethat really is a great idea! Love how your faces all look so different! I'm definitely going to try this :-)
ReplyDeleteGreat! Can't wait to see. It was such an interesting and quick exercise, hope you like it!. Kx
DeleteA fabulous idea... will give this a try! Thank you Kim.. it looks very good!
ReplyDeleteHappy weekend!
Thanks Susi and can not wait to see your doodle faces! Hope you had a good weekend. Loving all your entries so far, I shall be along to your blog later to get a closer look and leave some blog love :) Kx
DeleteI love this idea, and the way you used the bright watercolour background. I do like the way you photograph your work, it's always so bright and colour correct, maybe you could explain in a post how you capture your work. Thanks
ReplyDeleteHey Tiffany, Glad you like the doodle faces exercise, if you give it a go I hope you have fun doing it and gives us a peek at the result :)
DeleteYou know I've been thinking of doing some 'nuts and bolts' blog posts like how I do my photos. So it is nice to hear someone would find them useful!
I have written a couple of articles about it for Practical Publishing, if you are interested I can hunt out which issues they were, just shout. I do constantly work at getting the photos right as you have probably guessed :)
Kx
Such a fun idea, Kim, so lovely faces and pretty colours. Nice to see how the mind fills in the lines, brilliant!
ReplyDeleteLove and hugs
Maarit
You are so right Maarit, it is the mind filling in the gaps isn't it? So glad you liked it :) Kx
DeleteI don't think I have you in my list in Instagram, I'll have to find you!
ReplyDeleteI love your journal page full of colorful faces :oD