The Acceptance Project

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The Acceptance Project: outline

Purpose/Objectives

• Get better about having my picture taken

• Practice drawing little by little, day by day

• Be able to look at a picture of myself objectively- just draw it out for what it is

How To

• Take a black and white selfie

• Sketch the photo the next night and number it

• Take a new photo for the following night

• Upload the sketch and photo for a side by side comparison

Goals

• Continue every night for an undermined (as of now) amount of time

- A week?

- A month?

- A year?

•Share on a social media platform

- Encourages follow through

- Encourages vulnerability

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Dunno why but I looked back and the quality on the last picture is garbage. Here's hoping this one isn't as bad, but if it still sucks at least I tried something different to try and help it out.

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So I have gwitch brainrot and spent a good portion of my night painstakingly drawing this on my phone. Well, tracing more than drawing really, but I'm actually quite happy with how I've done. So here's me posting immediately after finishing before I lose my nerve

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Well, spent a ridiculous amount of time on this. Again. But the brainrot remains, and had to have a Suletta to go with Miorine. So might as well try to push myself into drawing again with the complete gwitch pair.

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I think I'm going to try and get a little bit faster with my sketching, now that I've kinda gotten the gist of what I'm trying to do.

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Came out smiling more than the pic, and the glasses are a little wonky. If I can get these done earlier than I wanna try drawing something other than my face, but we'll see how that pans out

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I end up looking grouchy in a lot of my photos-and that's because I am. Still not having an easy time of having my picture taken, even when I'm the one doing it. It's gotta get easier eventually, right?

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My hair was truly bizarre here, and it is only going to continue like this until it grows out some. So. New way to draw hair thrust upon me I guess.

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I need to be making both my glasses and nose a little bigger so they slot into one another better. And try and get my eyes more even

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Ear is a little funky, but I think everything over all looks ok. Thought I messed up and made the chin area too squashed up at first, but now it looks ok, so maybe I need to keep that in mind going forward

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New piece of paper new eye style to try out. Wasn't sure how it would turn out, been thinking of going all black for a while now, and I think it looks ok. We'll see though, I'll give it a couple of days at least to see how it goes

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Finished sheet, nearly 2 weeks worth of sketches. Paper became a little curly on the bottom so a few faces are a bit warped in this photo. My use of space is, as per usual, hilariously poorly executed

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Again, the paper got curly which warped how some of the sketches photographed. But here is sheet two. I am impressed that I've made it this far and I think the spacing turned out better on this one (minus the last sketch I squashed in)

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Squished one last one onto this piece of paper instead of looking for another one to start on. Which somehow, despite the better spacing on this sheet, ends up with both of them having 13 sketches each

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I think I need to take more pictures face-on because something about drawing them is throwing me off

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Gonna have to figure out a good way to show the light vs dark hair. I've been kind of ignoring it cause it didn't show up super well in black/white, but now the contrast is more stark.

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Listen. I start my sketches from my glasses and portion the rest of the drawing around them. So I just sat and stared at this picture for way too long trying to figure out where/ how to start it. Which I guess means I've become fixed into a set way of drawing myself- whether that is good or bad I could not say.

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Little squished up top, but the bottom half is better than yesterday (thankfully)

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"What is going on with those weird head shapes lately?" one might ask. And gosh, don't I wish I knew.