I have an inclination to the horror or grotesque like images. They're not as close to the head fiction images but I'll take what I can get given with my current skill set. The challenge here is laying a concrete foundation > polishing.
It's capturing the personality in the face than a blank stare and if it just ends up as a blank stare, what other feature will the face have that distinguishes it from the others.
The personality of the mask and how we perceive the differences in small changes of form. The close to normal faces towards degeneration to the uncanny and abnormal. When do faces stop looking like persons.
I'm joking. The above two paragraphs are just an afterthought after I'm done with the practice just to make it sound like my art is deep. I'm faking it till I make it and it's tiring to be a pretend artist but it's still fun.
I'm think I leveled up in some parts of the process like being less neurotic about minor details most don't care and focusing on concept and composition than making it pretty. The refining skills are still a priority but if the art has no core concept to build on, it just becomes a flat image.
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