giant self portrait!!

so, here's what my life size self portrait will be. pencil drawing, super detailed, cuz i need to work on drawing what i actually see... i've been drawing myself so much i don't even look anymore, so my portraits don't really look like me anymore. anyway, pencil drawing with an embroidered background. it will be intense and crazy and hopefully awesome. the final size will be 29.75 x 66.5 in, meaning the figure will be a little under life size.

progress!

all my reference pics laid out to be the figure

trying to show the grid on this pic, which is 4.25 x 9.5 with quarter inch squares

outlining where each of the reference pics is and what it shows and how they interact and all that

the 2 pics next to each other.

i'm starting the grid on the big paper, which will take a while to get... then i can actually start the drawing! the sqaures on it are 1.75 inches. i'm using 4 pieces of 22x30 paper, which i outlined rectangles on to make them more reasonable. 3 are 29.75 x 18 and the fourth is 29.75 x 12.5.

i really liked this one pic, when i was trying to get the whole figure so i can actually piece it all together. it almost looks like i'm naked or something.