The GOOD and the BAD: Drawing Self Portraits
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- Опубліковано 11 гру 2023
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A pretty great experience. The first one was an encouraging success, and the second one was an encouraging failure. Of course there are still good aspects of the second self-portrait, it looks like a cartoon caricature of sorts, but there are still parts I shaped well. I think I failed early on in the piece where I didn't get the basic shapes and structure down correctly. It wasn't until far too late in the piece that I realized everything was really "off". So in the future I need to step back and assess more often.
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Peter is such an interesting person. His videos are -- more than just art videos -- a window into the life of a totally unique and genuine personality. Keep up the great work, Peter.
I keep telling myself there has to be others out there that equal Peter's uniqueness with a heaping helping of extreme likeability. ❤ But I've never met one if they exist
Sounds creepier when you tell the story. But listening to the audio, he sounded genuinely impressed and sweet. I like both portraits by the way 😊
Great video Peter! I actually love both of the drawings. Your first was closer to being proportionally accurate , but the second has lots of character and is still a great drawing.
I would have called the video, 'Peter Draws Peter Draws!' My top tip: keep doing what you're doing
Peter draws Peter draws is a great title lol
I actually like that second one way more!
I love to watch you draw, but more so I love to watch you goof around. It makes me feel less alone in my own weirdness. Like, I came for the art, I stayed for the personality.
Best Regards, Another Goof
The talk was indeed a tiny little bit creepy, but I don't think the dude that watched you realized that. Your work looks great as always, Peter. It's nice to see you trying new stuff, about the tips I think it's a back and forth thing you look at them, then add your thing to it and repeat till it feels right
Great work Peter! It's always a pleasure to watch you draw, but self-portraits offer a different set of challenges. You handled it well!
Freakin' brave soul! I've yet to reach that level of confidence. You can see the level of your concentration in the portrait. Having someone watching through your window IS kinda scary.
It would be really fun to see a video of some of your anatomy studies or figures of faces or something. I would totally play a long video just of a study session of yours in the background while im drawing.
I agree 👍
Peter you are my favorite person to watch on youtube. I wish you would post more frequently, honestly i think i would like to see you do more projects like this where you go outside your comfort zone artistically to see where it takes you. No matter what your personality is so interesting and fun to watch
So close to a million…be a nice little Christmas present if you can get there! 👍
Glad to see you’re always expanding your horizons Peter! Rooting for you 😄👍✨
Your first picture in my opinion you knock it out the park.it's pretty much spot on...your second it's still peter but just a more angry looking one....I love them .keep the art flowing peter .God Bless and Have a Merry Christmas when it arrives .
You always drop a nugget that I needed to hear. No more info gather, just do. Thanks Peter.
Beautiful drawing, beautiful dude, beautiful day. Beautification all around!
Both are great but the second in my view is the best, so rustic look at yourself dude. Super work bro.
Every time I watch your videos I feel like I can conquer the world!
I actually like the second one. The first one was going great but you lost what was an amazing likeness with a bit of overwork towards the end, whereas the second one, though not as anatomically correct, reads like a viable stylisation and I really enjoyed it! It had a panache about it the first one lacked for my taste anyway, the first one looked like an exercise, the second one really struck me as a quite remarkable portrait and I just love it. And you, as always. Long time listener and all that :-xx
Second drawing really captures you Peter. Love it!!!!
I love the second one too, more of a caricature. Very inspiring watching your first marks and the shading, so good 😍 General's pencils are the best 👍
Love both!!! Put one on the front, one on the back of a tee. Would make great merch in your store
You are such a talent!
All the best from🇨🇦
You captured the expression and character in the first one perfectly, even with some things out of proportion it is still very recognizable. The second one looked a little like Nicolas Cage or a greek statue in the process XD. Man, this brings back my memories of architecture school... Your videos are always such a strong inspiration; to keep going on. Thank you, Peter!
Thank you for your videos Peter.
Hullo Peter, I am glad that you are continuing to create and develop your craft, stretching out to learn more and succeeding in such a brave way! Thank you for sharing your art journey with us. I continue to find your videos so inspiring and if I may say so F U N ! You sir are a true joy to watch. Please continue, take care and have yourself a lovely day as well as a joyful holiday season.
I have been long awaiting your dive into self-portraiture. Especially with your style, I'm really eager to see you expand on this if you want to. Also, you're looking great in this video! Your wave pattern really catches the light nicely.
I would recognize you from both portraits. I really like the 2nd one.
You are so handsome Peter, from the inside out. Such a wonderful human with the most extraordinary mind
These turned out amazing. Great work, Peter. I know how it feels to not like your own portraits initially, but your use of cross hatching and tones in the shading give such depth and life to your piece. I really like how you capture the highlights in areas like your ear and eyes. As well as the way you interpret hair is very cool, has a certian flow and chaos, in a good way. Thanks for always making videos that inspire me to make art!! ❤❤🎉
Sometimes the pieces that don’t seem to work actually work, in unexpected ways.
I think both portraits are interesting. You do interesting pieces that are look-attable.
Nice set up Peter.
You look great by the way 🤗
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"I normally just draw shapes and... I don't know if feelings is the right word" He says, while having two great videos about drawing feelings
I love your loose technic, it is so inspiring!
I am always so overly precise and don't like it that way. Next time I will try to be less detailed and finicky.
Have a wonderful holiday!
Both are great! I’m an artist that can’t draw a stick figure. I’ve never taken an art class and I have had 6 museum acceptances in 5 years.
I’m ashamed and I wish I could draw like that!
If you haven’t heard of “SLEW” he is another great artist (on UA-cam) and he recentley filmed something similar but with paint. Y’all are awesome!
Now I just remembered drawing my portrait like this many years ago. First one was a normal one and it came out good. For the second I put on a grimace. It was fun drawing!
I hope you have a wonderful December as well Peter, you did a great job with self portraits!
Up where I live we still don't have much snow, and that's really rare. It's nice, but we're getting spoiled so when the really cold weather hits, it will be a shock to our bodies! 🥶
honestly i love both but i find that the second has more personality to it that just really vibes with me. happy holidays peter. hope you have a good 2024
Wah.. I like it so much.. Amazing
It's a new side of you.. And it's so much YOU
Your 2nd portrait was very good and where focused on inperfections that is what makes it a great study ....
This is so exciting. The portrait came out so good 👍
i really like the second one tbh!!!
This video was so fun to watch
Do you know the artist Thomas Fluharty? He's one of my favorite portrait/caricature artists. He does the "blind contour" technique. That's something that I wanna get better at. It seems relatively easy to do, but really hard to master. Capturing the likeness is pretty tough, while also pushing and pulling proportions.
You're doing great! :D
As a depressed person, your videos help when im feeling down :,) worked on my own self portrait while watching this too haha
I like the second one more. No BS.
1st drawing is new peterdraws 2nd drawing is peterdraws classic
Wow, nice portraits and good practice
Hello again!😁🥰
When it comes to drawing anything, remember it's okay to use your eraser! I remember when I was learning back then, I tried to avoid using my eraser by trying to perfect the sketch the first time. It's OK to make the drawing messy. You can go back and fix it.
Both drawings are pretty good, and the salesman was just doing his thing, they're often overly positive and friendly
Can you do a self portrait made of "random" lines that have more to do with eachother than the structure of your face? Like, make a huge "mess" of lines and art and then form them into a visible head structure, eyes, etc. Kind of like drawing with dots but instead of progressively making the picture more detailed you are trying to "erase" using more lines to form the portrait out of something. #randomdrawingidea
You look so cute today Peter!
Great Portraits! :)
It's fun for me to watch someone who can control charcoal.
first one is a nice portrait, second is a nice caricature.
I love both. Kitchen window dude sounds scary 😟
Hello Legend! I havent seen you in a while because ive been working but i saw a Video of yours pop up recently and im surprised how Well you're doin with your craft. I hope you are doing well..... ASWELL
The younger generation has just taken over the word "yapping" and made it a negative thing, but I mean it as a very high compliment when I say I think peter is a expert at yapping.
I could listen to bro yap on for hours.
Do you have a strong urge to raise moths??? Your art is always interesting and inspiring!
I think the 2nd one captures something about you!
Trippin. That’s a self portrait.
I like how you see yourself as all nose.
WOW
The first portrait reminds me of Vincent Van Gogh.
You are kinda cool and funny. I think imma a fan 😊
Oh! I agree! You can spend a lifetime gathering information about how to do anything! Until you start working and doing and trying you understand nothing! You must practice to overcome theory. Be well my young internet friend 😊
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Good attempt not bad keep at it man…
Can you make a doodle that turns into your self portrait?
I think both portraits are great, Peter. Just concentrate more on your proportions - then concentrate on the details?
Did you get the phone internet service? Love your videos btw very inspiring and calming!
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I find that you can tell it's going well when you begin to forget it's your own face. "Oh wow, this face is goooood...Oh yeah, it's me."
Alright, hi everybody
Self
Again again!!
POV we are the internet salesmen in peters life ❤
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and cubisme style ?
Hi Peter, can I buy your self portrait. The first one in the video :)
I like them both... just sayin.
Only gathering information but not processing it makes you like a child that ate too many cookies, filled with indigestion. Gather knowledge, but give it a place too, make sure it lands somewhere and you do something with it!
Nothing wrong with the second portrait. I hate the side profile photos of myself.
What projector model?
Nice! Why wouldn't you draw from a photo?
Drawing pictures from real life models is sooooooo much better. There is no interpreting what you are seeing in a photo. There is just real life. And the depth and the movement brings the drawing to life. If you can get someone to sit still for you for a while, you should really try it. The difference is truly amazing. But it might help him to take a photo of himself and place it next to his image in the mirror. For some reason, when people see themselves in a mirror rather than a picture, the focus changes. So the proportions turn out a little better. A person may more likely get an accurate depiction of oneself when the two are used rather than when only one is used. It’s actually true with any subject. That’s why so many commissioned artists ask for multiple photos of the subjects they are going to draw or paint or sculpt. They get more of a feel for their subjects that way.
the at&t guys must be told to say the t-maybe thing because I hear that every time I move into a new apartment
NO NO This is a picture of a FORTRESS..Not a Portrait.. Like a Force as a Portrait. nMaybe.
Yet. HA Just keep swimming.
Downy woodpecker
eyes are a pitfall...
Food for thought: You’re “shading🤢” instead of ”shading” create form of the shadow.
what
It's better to look at a photo. Mirrors keep looking at you and looking away when you're not looking at it.. It's so creepy!
Well, Peter, we all watch you through this window into your life via a video on UA-cam. How is this any less creepy? Hahahaha! JK.
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I dunno, Door to door internet service? Then he watched you thru the window?
Now I've seen the movie, As Good As It Gets, and I'd get a friggen doorbell camera and one of the mats or strips that trips a sensor even if they don't ring the doorbell. It sounds like a dude casing your neighborhood and going door to door to see who is the easiest target. I'd ask for his card and then call the cops to see if they have had any scam artists or burglaries recently as it is the Holiday Season.
Nothing about that seems right and if he was looking behind you to see what gaming systems tvs and other things you have that's worthwhile to him while you had your front door open that's a big red majestically waving 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩of a situation.
Even if it wasn't a dude and it was a female or any other preferred personal pronoun affiliated scam artist or theif. It's usually an opportunity thing but if he's casing the places like the burglars from Home Alone, remember you can't boobie trap your house,(cause that's somehow actually illegal, don't ask me why or how or in what circumstance but someone told me it was once and Im not sure if that applies to all boobie traps or just deadly ones cause fly paper sticks to everything and a theif running down the street with his new fly paper wig would be a pretty good description to be able to give the cops in my opinion then again Im short and I can duck🤷♀️) but you can take steps to ensure your personal security. And this is a case where even an ounce of protection could be worth a pound of cure, not just to you, but your neighbors as well.
And fly paper is one of those things you have to cut out of your hair and if you try to wash it out it just makes more of your hair stick together and it's one of those things that really sucks so even putting them up is something you have to do with finesse cause thumb tacks actually come out of the material you stick them into pretty easy. So be careful if do you go that route cause if they get stuck close to the root or scalp area of your hair you're gonna end up with a bald spot where you had to cut it out until the regrowth gets long enough to blend it back in.
Same if it gets stuck to your clothing and leaves the glue on like a raised collar or whatever cause it can spread to other things and stick them to you and that's a crappy situation as well.
Guy works for a company and is working in Peters neighborhood right now and saw Peter drawing the night before and said himself he didn’t want to bother him. You can make up as many scenarios as you want but honestly I don’t think we are gonna hear about Peter getting robbed by this random salesman who was literally on the job.
As long as he checked, two nights in a row, though? And feigning the I hate to bother you thing is like the easiest method that scam artists use to give the appearance the person they are trying to get something from the upper hand in the communications or encounter. Home invasions and thefts happen every day, especially around the holidays, when dishonest people think the occupant is gonna be out of town. BUT people have even been known to impersonate actual law enforcement at several levels and go door to door asking questions and being invited in, and with it being the holiday season people stealing packages from doorsteps isn't uncommon either let alone gifts wrapped that they see piled under a tree or what have you, and there was also someone who got scammed just the other day regarding legal services to represent someone else in their family which exceeded the $20,000.00 range but that happens with people impersonating other peoples family members too. So I guess it must just depend on the area you are in and there is also apparently a correlation with trusting people and the number of scam artists and thieves that flock to them and their areas, which can also happen in groups.
Kinda like the opening of Bedazzled when they go thru the cities of the world deciding which ones are too high on the difficulty level to be able to infiltrate and corrupt verses the ones that are far too easy. The overall logic there isn't wrong however and you can see it applied even in marketing campaigns in certain areas logistically as to which people are more likely to purchase a product based on the wording and visual aspects of design used in the ads or product branding, (which conartists, people in the entertainment industry, sales people,and even politicians use everyday so that they give off the ambiance they want in order to get the reaction they deem desirable or needed from their surroundings and people they encounter) and one is just usually more honest than the other but they can all have their shades of dishonestly incorporated into them even if the advertising itself is honest or that's just actually how they really are and not a product of a conartist trying to take your money or whatever happens to be valuable to you.
That one movie with Stockard Channing, Will Smith, and Donald Sutherland Six Degrees of Separation WAS actually based on the true story of the conman David Hampton and so there are multiple levels and scales to which people are taken in: Romantically, Monetarily, Emotionally, etc., and these mix and intermingle as well even in your subconscious selection of friend groups and reasons for liking or disliking something, unfortunately you can't take issue when you waste a bunch of time on someone just to find out they didn't care about you at all and just wanted to crush you after they had gotten what use they could from you, but it is what it is.
People are what they are, and some of them really suck. Go figure.🤷♀️
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This picture is a real stinker ...stick to what you know pete