Portrait of artist Jojemo(United States) Added on Sept. 29, 2009 08:50 Pencil
A Mexican American actress and directer, in 2000 Selma founded a film production company, Ventanarosa, through which she produces film and televison projects. Selma Hayek guest starred as a magazine editor, Sofia Reyes, on the TV comedy, UGLY BETTY. After she left that show, it died in my opinion. Without her, it lost a lot of sparkle and interest.
Thank you, Christine. Selma is a beauty...at least I think so. I haven't seen her in too many things, but those things I have seen, I have enjoyed her acting.
Thank you, Shahin, I am afraid that I worked a little too quickly on this one. I started late last night, and finished shortly after midnight. Submitted it, then went to bed. I keep telling myself to slow down, but once I get started on a portrait, it is hard for me to stop...
Thanks, Shahin. I am working on another one tonight. My Salma portrait makes 66 since I started doing this on the eleventh of March, this year. Pretty good for a beginner, I guess. Especially one as old as I am. I turned 78 on July 31st.
No problem, the age is not a serious restriction for creativity. the grand master Titian painted some of his giant works in 87 and he died only by notorious plague of 16 century Venice, otherwise he was healthy and full of energy for creation.
I am not complaining, Shahin. Being 78 years old certainly beats the alternative, being dead. I am just saying how amazed I am to find myself doing what I am doing now......drawing portraits. If someone had told me to try drawing portraits a few years ago, when I was painting scenes with oil paints, I would have told them, "No way! That is too difficult." This is not to say that I find portrait drawing easy. It is not. But it is also not as difficult as I once thought it would be.
human face is the most difficult subject for painting. you can paint a tree 2 meter taller or shorter and no one complain, but make a nose 1 centimeter longer or shorter and everything will change.
That is so true, Shahin! I have been finding out just how important the ruler is, as a tool in portrait drawing. Making an outline of someone's face on a sheet of tracing paper; putting graphite (or pastels) on the back of those outline lines; transferring those outline lines onto the drawing paper by re-tracing them, and finally, filling in the details, just isn't accurate enough. Those outline lines are not always as precise as one would wish them to be. But when the outline is finally on the drawing paper, I am only halfway there. Maybe not even that far along! The shading of the face plays an important part in defining a person's features. But you already know that. Every time you take a color photograph and change that photo to look like an oil painting, watercolor, pastel, etc., you have to pay close attention to the values of each color. Otherwise, the person's face you are working with, would soon look like someone else, wouldn't they?
..in fact one of those features who make painting(digital or traditional) so favorable to me is the comparison. many people try to do the same thing that you did but your hard working, your full attention to details and your passion for the colors are apparent in first look. something not so apparent in others' work!
That is a nice compliment, Shahin. Thank you. I did slow down (for me, at least) on my latest drawing (Jeanne Crain). I started it last night; then finished it tonight, after dinner. I submitted it for approval, but it has not been accepted yet. It was not an easy drawing for me, and I am off a little in a couple of places....but I think she'll be recognizable, to those who are old enough to remember her movies.
My sincere thanks, didgiv. For some strange reason, my scanner would not scan all of the drawing on either side. ??? It likes to act up, from time to time. It was late...after midnight...so I did not feel like scanning it any more times.
We don't see the drawing completely, however we have a perfect vision of the global portrait. And it's really a magnificent portrait.
I hope that your scanner will be less whimsical next time !
The scanner did not leave off much. Just part of Selma's right arm and some hair on that side, and part of her hair and her bust on the other side, so you are not missing anything important. I did have to re-write my name twice, though, in order to get it all on there.
Sir....you have already clapped for Selma once. I am pleased that you like the drawing. My thanks, again. Sorry! But I can not deliver the "real thing" to you.
I don't think I would go so far as to say that I would look gorgeous in a T shirt.....unless it would cover my head. However, when I was in my early teens, I used to spend my summers on my maternal grandparents farm in Michigan. My grandmother Harmon was quite a seamstress and she made some delectable dresses for me out of the material used for flour sacks. Back then, flour sacks used to have some interesting patterns printed on their fabric. I do not know if they still do, as it has been many years since I was on a farm.
WOW, i just had a flashback of my mom telling me these awsome stories of her teen years! i love hearing these kind of stories! People are so interesting. And you sure have a great sense of humor too!!!
I see you are sitting at your computer right now, or you would not have responded so quickly. It is 2:35 AM here, as I type this. I went to bed, but I couldn't sleep. Yet I was too tired to draw, before that. Go Figure! Sometimes I am afflicted with insomnia. Tonight is one of those nights.
Yip, answering my "fan mail" WOW, i had a bad brush with insomnia not too long ago, then i read all sort of things trigger it... stress, for one... pre-menopausal... i thought, YIKES... so i decided to try some holistic remedies, am not into chemical medicine... except if i have no other choice... now i am sleeping like a baby! my hormonal balance was totally off...
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