PoRtRaiTS!!!

I absolutely adore drawing, it is my way of releasing everything that hurts me, make me laugh, makes me cry and so on. When my assignment was to draw a self portrait i was extremely excited. Especially because we are drawing it on HUGE paper! Like always, art is never boring; we are not jus drawing self portraits but we are painting them in ONE COLOR. The best part of it all is that we are inking our paintings when we are finished to give our portraits a more interesting look. Last year we drew a bouquet of flowers and we painted and inked them, so I have some experience but with our self-portraits there is shading. Never did I imagine shading with colored pencil, let alone shading with paint. Will I be able to do this?! Yes!!! At first I was afraid that my painting would not be as good as the legit drawing of my face, and I was afraid that I was going to mess it up once I picked up the paintbrush. With each stroke I am getting better, and everything is coming together nicely.