The Seventieth Doodle

Fist things first - Happy St Patrick's Day! Hopefully you will remember tomorrow how you celebrated!

So the doodle today is about something most (but not all) artists despise. Self portraits.

ARRRRGGGGGG when you have to look in the mirror and dissect what it is that makes you look like you...CHRIST, what a grim task. The more you look, the weirder you look. Your features start looking completely bizzarre, you wonder how on earth you walk down the street without babies crying and people throwing cabbages at you.

It's like when you say one word over and over and over, till it sounds so odd you're sure it's not actually a word anymore. Window. Window. Win-doww. Try it. It's weird.

But I suppose, the dreaded self portrait is good practise. The problem is, you will always find it hard to be completely objective when it's your own face. If you're too artistically mean, it won't look like you. If you're too generous, it won't look like you, and people will think you're a twat.

So how do you get around it? You don't really, but I did manage to finally produce a self portrait for my website. I'm buggered if I want an actual photo on there, so it's the lesser of two evils I suppose. I decided to keep the features very simple and focus on my hair, it's what people notice first anyway. I still look at it and think 'Is that really me?'. But essentially it doesn't matter; it's me done in my own illustration style, and that is what is important. 

Bloody self portraits. God I'm weird looking.