First stage of the Helena Bonham Carter pencil drawing I started yesterday. There’s not much else to say about it right now, I like how it looks so far so I don’t have any self-criticism to apply to it yet. ;)

Happy to say I’ve finished the Holly Marie Combs drawing! Just click the image for a bigger view.

At first I had no clue as to what to put in the background - my imagination has dried up a bit lately - but my friend Iris helped me out and threw some keywords my way to use for inspiration and I’m pleased with the result.

The portrait itself has its imperfections and I could spend a good while pointing them out, but let’s not, that would only ruin it.
I think I captured Holly’s likeness, which was the idea - not as perfectly as I had hoped - but I’m still pleased with the drawing as a whole.

Used HB, 4H, 4B and mechanical pencils on white paper - A3 format. Also added to my gallery on tiogardubh.net.

Currently, I’m stuck with my original drawings, no idea where to put what and choosing its colors have me in a panic as well. But instead of doing nothing at all in the mean time, I set out to do a good old portrait again.
Lately I’ve been re-watching Charmed episodes, so I decided on drawing the stunning Holly Marie Combs, the cutest of the Charmed sisters.

This is the latest stage of the drawing (stage 3), where I’m at now:

Although, now that I look at it again, the eyes are a bit Alyssa Milano-ish. Okay, I’ll have to fix that, or just move on to an Alyssa drawing.

These are the previous stages, the second (left) and the first (right):

Still needs a lot of work and improvement, obviously. All images are clickable and have a more detailed description alongside an enlargement.
Stay tuned for the final result.

We had a tiny little birthday BBQ for my 25th over at my mom’s, and it was fun, except for the wee bit of rain - first time in 25 years that it rained here on August 2nd - but at least it allowed us to barbecue and the rain didn’t ruin anything except our sitting in the garden afterwards.

Despite the rain, I had fun, spent my day with the people closest to my brain - my dad, my mom, her husband, my half-brother and my grandmother - I often find myself wishing for more people to spend it with but afterwards I’m always relieved that I didn’t have to spend time chit-chatting with people who on any other day wouldn’t give me the time of day, and - truth be told - vice versa.

For as long as I can remember it has always been rain-free and hot on my birthdays, hence I’m, like.. barely dressed.

There are some more pictures on my Flickr here.

It’s my birthday! My 25th!

Although it isn’t ‘officially’ my birthday until 10:15 am GMT+1, it is August 2 here, so who cares! Get me a lady stripper! Complete with a cake!