faces (2020)

because i am not a great illustrator, i like crudely and quickly drawing out the face, first with the eyes, then the nose, then the mouth, and then putting a cigarette in the mouth and drawing the smoke wisping up. it gives the face dimensionality with a very limited # of strokes and there's something very cathartic about doing them.

for this one, it's like a sibling yin-yang situation, my smoke makes you(r face) and your smoke makes me. there's lots of ways to interpret it, all of which i enjoy.

i generally draw these frantically in bouts of frustrated excitement, kinda like how i play chess, and very seldom the strokes come very fluidly and you hit the line with your pen in this crazy way that makes your brain see an angle or emotion to the face that holds so much information in it. those are the best. most of the time it's a draw, crumple the page, draw again thing.