This has been a record-breaking week. I ran a total of 34 km. And I broke my distance record this last wednesday by 4 kilometers with my first 10 km run since my army days.

I will try to run the 10 km lap twice next week.

A quick photoshop doodle. Yikes, never draw withouth reference!

I ran my first continuous 10 km (6.2 miles) since my army days today. I ran as usual to the marina but continued on towards Sandvik. The Sandvik Track (the “loop” on the map below) runs inside a nature reserve so it’s a beautifull run thrue some very dense forest.

I use the running calculator at IFORM (in Swedish) to measure the distance of my runs. According to IFORM my run was 9.87 km, however, I got kinda lost there at the far side of Sandvik so I probably ran an extra 500 meters.

A sketch I made for the drawing tutorial. 15 minutes. I’m still on the fence on wheter I should refine it further or not.

One of the problems beginners face is beeing able to accurately measure distances, angles and positions of diffferent features of their subjects. Another problem is doing all of this quickly. This tutorial focuses on my approach to drawing the portrait, but the techniques explained here can be used for the figure or anything else you might want to draw.

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A portrait of the actress Christina Ricci. I’m very happy with how this turned out. I was worried I wouldn’t be able to pull of the hair but it was actually quite uncomplicated in the end.

I have compiled a WIP (Work In Progress) series which shows the picture at different stages of development. Click the links below to view the WIP:

Almost done now. I’m very happy with the hair - it still needs a bit of tweaking, but overall it looks ok.

Painting the beads was pretty straightforward. Next up is the hair.

The face is almost done now. Next up are the beads in her necklace.

The eyes really make the image “pop”, doesn’t it? The nose and lips are still way off so the likeness is not even close yet. Christina Ricci’s face is more “doll-like”. I’ve managed to make her look older and thinner.