M2M Day 54: Challenge complete!

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.

24 days ago, to kick off December’s challenge, I tried to draw a self-portrait.

Then, over the next 3.5 weeks, I completed a 10-hour drawing course, drew a few other people, and then spent 8 hours on a new self-portrait.

Here are the before and after.

And here’s a time-lapse of the 8 hours of drawing.

I’m happy with the result, and actually think the self-portrait looks a lot like me.

Tomorrow, I’ll write up a more thorough critique. But until then, I’m declaring this month’s challenge a success.

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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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