Nicky Whelan

Evangeline Lilly

Amy Acker

Christina Ricci

Neve Campbell

Emmanuelle Chriqui

Salma Hayek

Just for a change from drawing faces...

Jennifer Connelly

Tiffani Thiessen

Ziyi Zhang

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Lindsay Lohan

Ali Larter

So, rather than trying to perfect that same picture, I thought I'd try a different perspective. I think this one's been more successful (although a bit unbalanced).

Ifatfirst...

Take this:

Start from scratch three separate times, and get these:

I think it's improving, but still not right, so maybe I'll return to it again some day. It's been a nice test of patience and persistence, though! My brain (or my hand) keeps forcing everything level, so I think I'm going to have to resort to tilting the paper to get any kind of lean going.

Snorts Akimbo

Randomly surveying the interior of six curtained homesteads was hardly a job for Mr. Chronograph, but he had been coerced into this subservient task by his arch-nemesis Vanzo the Vainglorious. Coerced, bullied and handsomely paid. Old Chroney (as the young, handsome and wealthy Mr. Chronograph liked to call himself) was having a splendid time!

"Ah, Old Chroney, what has your magnificent life come to?" he asked himself aloud in the third person. "Why, startling magnificence I would think, Old Chroney!" came his steadfast, yet stertorous, reply.

"Well, if it isn't Vanzo the Vainglorious!" boomed Vanzo, announcing his own entrance.

"For an arch-nemesis you seem to be treating Old Chroney quite well!" bellowed Mr. Chronograph across the cavernous foyer of homestead number four.

"Arch-nemesis smarch-nemesis!" pfawwed Vanzo, "Let's be friends instead!"

"Yes, let's Vanzo and Old Chroney indeed be friends!" exalted Mr. Chronograph.

They celebrated with much snorting and merriment.

THE END

Jewel Staite

David Tennant

I'd always planned a Doctor Who return, so here's my second go.

Billie Piper

Woman in a garden

This is also from high school, a pencil drawing sadly damaged by insects in my neglect:

Compare to the real thing from Monet:

and my never completed painted version:

Pretty much anyone that knows me will have heard of my misplaced art rebellion, where I defiantly said "Why should I try to copy a grand master in the same medium?". This story was based on my recollection that I never really even started the painted version. Having rediscovered it, I find it possible that I was just getting lazy and restless for an escape from Year 10, since I'd actually made some decent progress.

Eagle

Ok, I'm stealing from the past again with this one, a drawing I did back in high school, which is still one my favourite efforts. Evidence of my greater patience and commitment in the past. It's actually framed, so I had to take a photo of it, rather than scanning.