M2M Day 38: Finishing my first portrait

This post is part of Month to Master, a 12-month accelerated learning project. For December, my goal is to draw a realistic self-portrait with only pencil and paper.

Today, after another 2.5 hours of work, I finally completed my Derren Brown portrait.

In the coming days, I will write a few detailed posts about what I’ve learned, how I plan to move forward, etc., but for now, I’ll just share the final photos of my progress.

Today’s progress

I started off by detailing the lips.

Then, I added the mustache.

With this facial hair momentum, I finished off the beard.

Then, the ear.

Finally, I completed the neck, decided not to address the clothes, signed it, and I was done.

For my first portrait of the month, I’m quite happy with how it turned out.

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Max Deutsch is an obsessive learner, product builder, guinea pig for Month to Master, and founder at Openmind.

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