einahpets | portrait issues (Reply)

For kicks this morning I decided to make a mental head count (ha, pun) of all the self portraits have done since my first one sophomore year of HS. The count of all the pieces I remember is 30, one is currently in progress, another is somewhere in St. Augustine (my professor at Flagler never returned it to me), and all the rest are either here or home in Da Buc. Now, while I was musing over my blueberry banana pancakes I realized that I may be so used to drawing my face that i no longer have an objective view. Maybe I know the features so well that I have a subjective view to how they should look so the final product looks like me. Or maybe I have so much practice with my face I know when something is off. However, I don't think that is the case because my portraits usually look like this. 3/4 view, hair braided and hanging off my shoulder (so it looks like I'm a girl), and usually I'm in a t-shirt and sweatshirt. Is this some sort of formula I created? Or is it just the fact that all professors ask for 3/4 view. BLAH.
It's appropriate that I'm having these thoughts while I'm in the middle of my 30th portrait.