TheLegendsLeague | Bryan Espiritu

DAY THIRTEEN RESULTS:

Face Shape: hair and jaw are misshaped, face is a little smaller than it should be.

Eyes: Surprisingly inaccurate. I would expect my ability to draw arguably the most telling portion of a persons portrait, the eyes, perfectly by now. I seem to be really hit and miss with the eyes and have trouble with both the detail and the shape of them. These aren’t the worst, but they’re definitely close to the bottom of the pile for the 5 Minute Me.

Nose: Not a lot of definition here. The nostrils are too small and there isn’t enough detailed separation between the front of my nose and the nostrils. The bridge has little definition, making my nos seem to pop out of nowhere. The detail that I like best is the bow shaped line just under my left eye (right) showing the side of my nose.

Mouth: This may be the most accurate part of the illustration, but it’s poorly drawn, which says a lot about this 5 Minute Me attempt. I tried to draw in the vertical lines on the lower lip for texture, but didn’t have enough time.

Details: The best part of the details in this illustration may be my mustache and the corner of my right eye (left). The shading on the left side (right) is so rushed and too uniform to show any depth. The eyebrows are poorly drawn. The entire thing looks and feels rushed, even though I only have 5 minutes.

Final Thoughts: I’m really starting to feel a sense of anxiety about the 5 Minute Me. There’s a lot about putting your raw, unedited work out for people to see and critique, that’s a bit nerve racking. There’s a level of refinement that an artist wants to see, hear, sense, in his/her work before exposing/debuting it to the world. I’m finding that want for refinement is creeping up on me everyday, and you can see it in this 5 Minute Me, and sense it a bit in the writings from the past 3 days.

DAY THIRTEEN PIECE:
9 to 5ers. (written in 4mins 20secs)

It’s been more than a year since I’ve been off of work before the sun went down. I find myself wanting to rest as much as I want to enjoy the weather. I’m not sure how much of this time is gonna be spent recovering from my old work schedule, but I do know this… I plan on getting some sleep in now that I can. When I was working two jobs it didn’t seem like the most difficult thing in the world. 60 hour weeks and 60 hour week type paycheques can’t piss you off too, too much. But what I’m finding now is that I can actually take a second to enjoy life how regular people enjoy it. I can eat dinner at a table. I can go to bed before I’m tired. I can enjoy the sun. I never thought I’d say this – but thank god I’m back to a 9-5.

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08.01.08