Project Draw EXO: Lay | Sketchbook

If you've been reading my blog thoroughly you know that there have been some issues in my life that had me be not able to focus on anything. Thus, even this drawing project of mine got postponed last month...
     Anyhow, let me represent you my September's EXO memeber - Lay. This is the third portrait after a long hiatus of not drawing anything and yet I feel like I've improved so much. First of all, drawing Lay has been the easiest so far. I'm not saying that Xiumin and Suho were any harder to draw. I simply mean that it is easier for me now to draw faces than it was at first when I started. Maybe next year I'll do draw this again challenge to see just how much better I've gotten.

EXO's Lay.
Here you can see the picture I used as model for this.

I've often been told that I have gift for drawing and that they are jealous of that gift, However, I don't think I'm any better than others. It's just that I've been into drawing ever since I was a toddler and for that reason I've practiced it for so long. I sincerely believe that anyone can learn to draw well if they practice enough. You only need to remember to joy every improvement you notice because if you compare yourself to others it will surely upset you. Even to this day I still get upset when I compare my drawings to those who are way much better than me. But I get over with as soon as I pick up the pen and start drawing again.
    Ugh, I could write a whole another post on this subject so I think it's better if I stop here. ^^'

Back to Lay! I didn't do any practice sketches for his portrait. I just kept drawing and drawing and I'm happy how it turned out though there are some mistakes: like his eyes are too close to another, his lips are not the right shape, etc. Yet, I'm happy with. At least for now... Maybe I'll start hating it after some time but then I just need to draw him again and see if there's any improvement. :)

This time I started from the nose and build up the rest of the face around it.

At this point I noticed I drew his eyes too close each other  but didn't want to
start a new sketch so decided to leave it like this.

I got the sketching ready. Especially at this point I was doubting whether
it would look like Lay.

So this was supposed to be September's portrait. Oops! I really shoudln't schedule myself because I'm never able to manage according to it. Oh well... Who cares.

    Anyhow, till next time!