SELFPORTRAITS: Show your face here!

[bibi5000]

Everybody seems to be shy ;) You can't be that ugly...

Self portaits are a good idea, I am also curious how you people look like...

:argh:

I'll make a start. Voilá! That's me.
A rather quick self portrait, done in painter.

Bibi5000 looks like this:

http://home.arcor.de/bibi5000/bilda/ich4.jpg

[Carlocki]

HERE I AM

http://digilander.libero.it/carlocki/Archivio%20Carlo/me_1.gif

[roel]

Rats. I tried to do a self portrait, but it didn't look a thing like me. Since I did it from a photo, I decided to do a little test. So I simply traced the photo, and what do you know? It didn't look a thing like me! I guess I need to take a new photograph before trying again. :shrug:

[bibi5000]

roel: don't take a photo as reference. Mostly, the camera "freezes" an unnatural expression of your face. These damn snapshots are crap. Use a mirror as reference and make some sketches until you are happy with one of them.

wondahboy: you may hear that often, but you look like the doom spacemarine ;)

Carlocki: Cool sketch. I like it. Why didn't you write the text with the hand? Would fit better, I think.
Why am I a Doctor? I even can't see blood :surprised . But thanks for the promotion.

[ivanimal]

OK thats me

[roel]

Originally posted by bibi5000
roel: don't take a photo as reference. Mostly, the camera "freezes" an unnatural expression of your face.

Yeah, but I don't have any mirrors that aren't connected to a wall. And I didn't think it would be a good idea to put my computer in the bathtub.

[wildsheepchase]

Here's another for the heap:beer:

[TheSomnambulist]

The hair is a bit shorter these days.....

The Somnambulist

[wondahboy]

lol bibi5000 heh in the ref pic i used i didnt look that menacing heh just kinda went into that direction dont realy now what happend to the expression :)

[jeroentje]

Well, at least no one dares to mess around with you now.
Great first post LOL

Welcome to the board, jeroentje

[wondahboy]

heh im a pushover a regulear pencil neck :P hehe

and tnx for the welcom:)

[cleptocat]

Hello, hello, hello

[Judas_Pilate]

I did this a couple of months ago...my hairs a bit longer, and I've grown a beard, but other than that it's pretty accurate.
http://users.bigpond.net.au/oracle/me.jpg

[wondahboy]

well here's another crappy self portrait :annoyed: about 40 min:annoyed:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~mca142/eddiepeuk.jpg

[Raul-Reznek]

THis is a REALLY good thread how bout somene give this one 5 Stars?? heh??

I'd add my 3d self but it'd dissobey the rules and it ain't exactly a portrait, it's more like fun :D


GREAT thread once again!!!

[dur23]

drew this back about 5 years ago...its still has similairities to the present me:)

http://www.20threed.com/images/pics/2d/imgs/minimike2.jpg

[Fetus23]

hahahaha...nice self portrait dur...I'm still laughing at it!! :)

[Kirt]

Here's me. :D

http://www.cell2000.net/~users/kirtstanke/images/selfport.jpg

[jeroentje]

Hehe, nice one Kirt.
Great shoes, I have them in black.

[Obsti]

great thread... and a lot of excellent work:applause:

heres my one (about 15 minutes)

http://www.obstology.de/elements/2D/meinereiner.jpg

[Najd]

You guys know what you do...

sleepless, your style just rocks :buttrock:
kirt, funny one there.
Malameel, strange background :surprised

Everybody, Goood Work.
Here goes mine...
http://snaj.free.fr/temp/hemm.jpg
(well, I still don't really get it. Still can't manage to paint on computer, but still trying)

[Malameel]

I went ahead and updated my portrait. The original one I posted was done several years back. I didn't want to really do too much work on it, but just give it a better color scheme. The old colors were just too saturated. What was I thinking? Anyway, I like this type of background better anyway.

Anyway... Here it is...

http://www.tritonstudios.com/PrivatePages/Quick-Portrait-Redo.jpg

[jeroentje]

Turned out just a tiny bit too serious looking ;)

http://members.lycos.co.uk/superjeroentje/portretten/ikkeboos.jpg

[Sleepless]

Ohh that makes me think of my old pal Mr. Camel. 7 months gone and counting....Nice one my friend.:beer:

[jeroentje]

Yes that is a Camel indeed ...
I started again last month after 18 months without :annoyed:
Hang in there Sleepless (Smokeless?) you can do it :bounce:

[Downside]

Hey ya all,
I look like this most of the time.

[Sleepless]

Downside, that's a great introduction. Welcome:)

[Kirt]

:buttrock: Downside! :buttrock:
Wicked and disturbed! I love it. Welcome to the forum.

[Carlocki]

downside i love it too

[Rye]

Just a quick sketch, I've never drawn myself before...i think i made me too pretty haha. ;)

[Gilgamesh]

Well, I posted my picture on the other thread, so it seems only fitting to post here, too. Though I have doodled, this is my first serious go with my Wacom. So it isn't really defined all that well, and I gave up on the hair. Anyway.......

[Jake]

Well, here's my mug. This was my first real attempt to get a grip on digital painting (I used Painter 5 and a little Photoshop), so any C&C is very welcome.

thanks,
Jake

[wildsheepchase]

Nice portrait Jake:) I think the right side and bottom of the nose could use a bit more shadow to push the depth. That's about it, though. Good job:buttrock:

[wasted weasel]

5 minutes in painter 7, obviously my neck isn't that big, but i can dream

[FlexOutlaw]

This is my first post here. Been amazed by so much of the art... This was the first portrait I attempted, learned a lot, have done more (better too) since. This is half of the original, there's another person in the other half of the image. So here's my mug

[wildsheepchase]

This thread shouldn't die yet, so here's another one. I think it actually resembles me:rolleyes:
It's half pencil/half photoshop...c&c welcome:D

[Jake]

You're getting close, but you have some proportion issues. Try scaling the eyes and the mouth down so that they take up less area on the face. After that, you may need to tinker with the nose as well.
Each element (eyes, etc.)by itself looks good. You've got an interesting style there going from colored pencil to photoshop. One thing you might want to do is temporarily convert the whole image to greyscale to see how much of a range you've got going from dark to light.
Rock on

[DXtreme]

hey jeroentje my favorit 2d moderator ;-))

just surfing around on cgtalk and checking the 2d forum,as usual!
but what's this...selfportrait...cool i made this at school this morning (btw started at BTK - Grafik and Design School in Berlin)

so the topic was to draw a portrait without any mirrors or pictures as references..only the image you've in mind and the message you'll send to others when ya communicate with them!

we use drawing-coal for this!

(the image is not very good , cause i made it with my digicam...but scanning is impossible!)

[cool_art]

Is glad all to see

[Gilgamesh]

Great style, cool_art.

[danjdob]

this is my first post here
and here is my self
not sure if i'm posting correctly

[danjdob]

ok i'll try again

[jeroentje]

Wow danjdob, that is one great drawing :thumbsup:
Post some more work :)

[Alice]

Oh well:


http://w1.315.telia.com/~u31515536/about/images/me.jpg

;)

[rharpe]

Don't everyone laugh all at once... I do have hair again, just not at the time I drew this image of myself.http://www.geocities.com/powerful_hero/rharpe02.jpg

[rharpe]

oops, I hit the button one too many times...:rolleyes:

[Shogun]

This is me. My nose is a little thin, but other than that its pretty close.

[iwask]

I know it is not beautiful:p

[rotaryman]

This was a class assignment I had a while ago. It was completely sketched and painted using photoshop, a mirror and a wacom tablet.

My Picture can be found here (http://www.geocities.com/g_youngsmith/grgsmith.jpg)

I must be an idiot or something, but I can't figure out how to get an image to show up. Can someone please tell me how exactly I am supposed to put an image that will show. The FAQ and vB Code help doc are not helpful at all. All I get when I preview the subbmission is a dead image Icon. Very frustrating..

[rotaryman]

Great I can't even get url's to work here is a fixed url.

here is my image this time (http://www.geocities.com/g_youngsmith/gsmith.html)

my webspace provider must not like other sites referencing images off them.

[alchoi]

Figured ... what the hell ...

Here's mine.

:D

[DeepFried]

15 minute sketch of me...from a slightly convex mirror.

http://www3.telus.net/D_raw/selfport

:d

[jeroentje]

Wow, great work everyone :)

Rotaryman, Geocities doesn't support outside linking. But you solved it fine.
For free hosting places check out www.tripod.lycos.co.uk , www.lycos.co.uk , www.fortunecity.com . (Links to) free upload software can be found there aswell and also at www.tucows.com. Or do a search in your favorite search engine. (My standard minichallenge line ;) )

Cheers, jeroentje

[RutRem]

and this is my ugly face showing up:)
i hope its not to late

[Frinsklen]

That's me... kind of...

It's also the splash image on my website.
:curious:

[bibi5000]

Where's the SP thread? Anyway, that's me. 30min doodle in the morning before leaving for work.


http://home.arcor.de/bibi5000/bilda/ich_b.JPG

[spr0g]

looks interesting... u depressed by any chance?

[bibi5000]

depressed? No, just tired :D That was before having my first tea in the morning :scream:

[spr0g]

hehe k

[Evil_radish]

this is me... i look like i think i pretty bad ass :hmm:

[jeroentje]

@Bibi5000
Thansk for giving this thread it's "kiss of life" ;)

@Evil_radish
Nice work. Welcome to cgtalk.com
Is that a vector image? It looks like it, but somehow I'm not sure. Very nice piece.

[Evil_radish]

lol, i dont even know what a vector image is:blush:

soo, please enlighten me, for i am just a silly little noob swede ;)

[wildsheepchase]

Wow! This thread is back from the dead:D Maybe I'll get a new sp done soon....we should keep this thread going.
Nice portraits bibi and radish:beer:

[jeroentje]

lol
It looks a bit like it could have been made with illustrator or coreldraw. But it looks a bit too pixeled for it.

[Evil_radish]

ahh, i see:p

no it was all made in painter 7

[jeroentje]

Okay :) Nice one, got more?

[Bradf0rd010]

Acrylic paints

http://www.phillhowe.co.uk/pics/art/mebw001.jpg

Seeing some pretty sweet work in this thread :thumbsup:

[Pancreas]

I didn´t know i loved myself so much :D

http://free.hostdepartment.com/P/Pancreas3D/retrato00.jpg

[bibi5000]

/edit: Boy! This is fun! :bounce:

@jeroentje: you're welcome! :beer:

Nice portraits everybody!

@Evil_radish: You got a cool style

@Bradf0rd010: Did you make this after a photography? Your ear seems to go into the neck and the eyes don't match. I like the hair.

@Pancreas: Good colours!

Yours sincerly

Note: This isn't really me. But o the other hand, how many personalities do you have? Last time I counted mine, I came up with 22.

http://home.arcor.de/bibi5000/bilda/ich_selbst.JPG

[Bradf0rd010]

Originally posted by bibi5000
@Bradf0rd010: Did you make this after a photography? Your ear seems to go into the neck and the eyes don't match. I like the hair.


Yea, I cheated some and drew using the photo as reference rather than a mirror. :D
There is a distinction between the ear and neck, it just doesn't show up well at all in the painting.
What is it about the eyes that don't match?

Cheers

:thumbsup:

[Norante]

Here is me, Norante himself without the paper bag.... I used photo reference, sorry :P, its late and I need work tomorrow.. I will do something more original in the future:D

[Evil_radish]

norante...you kinda look like elvis:)


bibbi, thanx man, i dig yours aswell

jerontje, ill see if i can find something on my little harddrive:p

[jeroentje]

Very cool to see this thread brought back to life. Great work being posted again :beer:

@Pancreas
I love you too Panky :D
It's so good to see that you are improving over the last months I saw you post your work here :) You're moving on from good to great :) This is one great portrait you have there.

As a little crit: did you know that even if you use a very modest gradient background, you can make a portrait pop off the canvas a lot more, and help the lighting in the portrait itself? Rembrandt was a master with that. Check out some of his portraits at www.rijksmuseum.nl
I saw them in real life 3 weeks ago.... *sigh*...

[bibi5000]

Thanks for that tip, jeroentje. I dig Rembrandt as well. But every time I step into a museum I start to get jaleous, because when you think about the little things you do and see what others have done you get desperate. But what the heck, that's the story of my life...

So much to learn... :cry:

[waterblue]

Thought I would put my face on the wall here to:hmm:

Nice to mingle among so many talents - keep up the nice work folks!

[Norante]

Originally posted by Evil_radish
norante...you kinda look like elvis:)


bibbi, thanx man, i dig yours aswell

jerontje, ill see if i can find something on my little harddrive:p

No way man.. :D

[waterblue]

...okey, ill try again..

[Pancreas]

Thanks Jeroentje! I´m :blush:

Thanks for the tip and the link too! There are some great pieces of art at hight resolution there (now in my HD too).

Wow, looking at this thread it seems we´re all a bunch of good looking people! I think this 2D forum should be renamed Melrose Place :D

[Norante]

Originally posted by Pancreas
Thanks Jeroentje! I´m :blush:

Thanks for the tip and the link too! There are some great pieces of art at hight resolution there (now in my HD too).

Wow, looking at this thread it seems we´re all a bunch of good looking people! I think this 2D forum should be renamed Melrose Place :D

I dont look good, its me that cant draw all the ugly details :)

[mayic]

Here ya go!

Keep this alive guys! Also, check out www.conceptart.org.

Andrew Jones posts a self portrait every day there:
http://209.126.148.88/forums/forumdisplay.php?forumid=9

Remember Rembrandt. Later in his life, poor, unable to afford a model, his paintings no longer in demand he still created self-portrait after self portrait. Today, museums are filled with them.

Perhaps some future digital archive... ya never know.

[bibi5000]

Here's another one. This thread is falling back too quick! :D

mayic: Great to see you here!

http://home.arcor.de/bibi5000/bilda/selbst_rot.jpg

[eyewoo]

http://www.eyewoo.com/show2/skch_self20020202/image_sml.jpg

[wildsheepchase]

eh...trying some new things with color and technique....not sure I like it though. The portrait still bears a bit of a resemblance at least.
http://members.cox.net/sheepchase/spweb.jpg

[Evil_radish]

eyewoo, i really like yours!! is it traditional or digital?

[kheemo]

nice thread!! great work evryone!!!

this is done in photoshop7..about 2h30 ,with a mirror


http://www.kheemo.com/me_01.jpg

[The Blue Forest]

Yeah, this is me, it's old, I did it like 2 years ago in photoshop, but i think its kinda cool.



http://hometown.aol.com/abercrombielion/images/reptile.jpg

<<portfolio>> (http://hometown.aol.com/theblueforest)

[ScORCHo]

I didnt do this as a self portrait, but i think it came out like that..it looks a bit like me.

http://invis.free.anonymizer.com/http://www.angelfire.com/blog/elscorcho/images/dudesmall.jpg

[Teyon]

http://home.att.net/~teyon.25/2dcolor/me2.jpg

[Alice]

I liek poking old threads :D

http://www.heybaberiba.com/images/126.jpg

[Vyse-soa]

It somehow dosent look, how it should...:scream:

http://homepage.hispeed.ch/welkesblatt/portrait.jpg

Whoa, great Thread, just found it... man, there are some really nice drawings in here.
Haha, I like cleptocat's one, great *lol*

[yliren]

That's me, (at least what I wish to look like) :rolleyes:

[kira-hime]

Here's me...I did this...geez, about five years ago. My first real drawing as a matter of fact :D Pencil, using a photo...

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