Art Journal Every Day: Same Girl

If you're new to Art Journal Every Day, there is a short introduction here.  All of the previous posts can be found archived here.  There is a flickr group for sharing right here.  Remember, it's just ten minutes of nourishing your creative self every day!  No need to finish anything or even like it.  If you've done some art journaling this week and you've blogged about it, or put it on flickr, please leave a link in the linky list at the end of this post.  Thanks!

I often use the photos of models in fashion magazines as reference images for creating faces in my art journal.  My goal is not to recreate the face exactly.  Rather, it's a helpful guideline for me to look at and make choices from.  Here are three art journal pages that were all created based on the same image:

As you can see, each is the same, but different.  The first one feels dark and powerful, the second one sort of goofy and the third...well, I find it rather impassive and without a lot of personality.  It's interesting for me to think about why each of the drawings feels as they do and to analyze what I did to create those moods.

I don't think that you have to reinvent the wheel every time you open your journal.  For me, the point is to have fun and do something creative.  I do a lof of repeating in my journals.  Do you?

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