here it is....?

there we go.
[a better image will be taken later, this is just to put it here]

detail of some of the sewing at the top left corner

detail of the "ribbon" part

my cat was walking across the thing when i was trying to take these pics...

Technically [well, in reality] it still isn't finished. And I am kicking myself. But I'm down to the ribbons, which should go faster. I'll post the real final pics as soon as I'm done, but I have no idea when that will be exactly.

Dear Val:

I will have the pics up today. Hopefully around 3 this afternoon, but possibly as late as 5. The only thing that'll be missing is that one 'do something you've never done' assignment. I forgot to take a picture of it, and I'm currently back home while my drawing is still in the dorm. But the selfportrait will be up.

I have various other progress pics hidden here and here.

Eleanor

drawing: complete!

torso! finished!

beginning the 3rd sheet

the 3 sheets put together

legs

completed drawing!! not a very good pic...

first stitches! added to the bra, where i actually have ribbon stitching...

hard to see, but there's stitching here too...

the start of blobby abstract border shapes... if the embroidery turns out to fail, i've got a back-up plan: cut paper, which can easily hide the unsightly holes left by the thread!

continued sexiness

not the best pics, but still. i'm getting really excited about this! i'm glad i'm not totally sick of this yet. that's probably because i'm going through this so fast and i really like how it's looking. i totally think it's sexy. not sure about my body itself, but the drawing is looking awesome.

finished one of the papers! yay!

i gotta say, those are some sexy clavicles. the face looks a little weird, but the chest area is awesome. i'm pretty proud of it. i'm trying to do one paper a day, so tomorrow i'll be doing the whole torso... that's a lot of work...

finished outline

hey!! i started my drawing!

yay! i've actually gotten a bit farther than this by now... i've drawn my knees! but i forgot to take a pic, and i don't want to unroll the drawing, so... yeah...

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.