Self-portraits as characters

My Daily Draw group leader gave us our weekly assignment: do a drawing each day of a character from a book.  How we see the character, not how the book illustrator or movie presented the character.  So, I combined a previous week's theme of self-portraits with this new theme.  It made sense.  I am one of those people who becomes lost in a good work of fiction -- as tho I am a character in the book myself.  I become so entangled in a book, that I could probably not notice a tornado blowing thru the house!  I'm giving you what I think were the better ones.  All of these were done on the iPad.  I started each one in Sketch Club, but they all swung thru more than one app.  From Sketch Club to a photo-edit app and back again.  Permutation after permutation.  Great fun!  If it isn't fun, why do it?  It's only art, after all.

Of all the pieces I have done on the iPad, this one has grabbed people the most.  I made it my Facebook profile pic, and it caused quite a stir among my Friends!  So far, I have a total of 17 "likes" and climbing on this one.  More than anything else I've ever posted.  I think it caught people by surprise. 

Little Red Riding Hood.  "You're everything a Big Bad Wolf could want...."  This one got quite a lot of attention from my Facebook friends as well.  I left out the wrinkles.  Glammed up, probably a bit too much.  I don't think any of my Friends caught the meaning of "Do I look suspicious?"  

Of course, it is a comment about the Trayvon Martin case.  An attractive white woman, wearing a hoodlie.  Is she suspicious?  How about a black male teenager wearing a hoodie?  Is he? The tragedy of this case has at least opened up a dialog about the way the dominant culture in this country views black males.  As a mother, my sympathy goes to his family, and, especially to his mother.  I know I would want my son's killer in jail.  Such a sad, sad tragedy. The vigilante fantasy reaped cold reality.

Here I am glammed up beyond recognition.  But, I actually did begin it as a self-portrait.  Let's call it a make-over that got out of control.

Pinocchio.  We all lie, don't we?  Even if just those little white lies, the lame excuses, the exaggeration.... And we have all probably told a Big Fat Lie at least a few times in our lives. And not just when we were little kids, trying to get out of trouble.  How about you?

This week's theme is "Spirits."  I have done a couple of the drawings this week as self-portraits.  I seem to be on a kick.

Co-Dependent Angel.  This self-portrait is the polar opposite of Batgirl.  Here I am a sad, tired, co-dependent angel.  This isn't always me.  At least, not nearly as often in the last few years as in years previous.  The Twelve Steps do help.  But, it's a process.

And I really would rather be Batgirl.

Here is today's drawing.  "I'm no angel, Charlie!"   This is the me that's mad about being a co-dependent angel and has decided, "Enough!"  

Who will I be tomorrow?  I won't know til then.