Ouch, I fell and hit my head
This one is just a personal project I did for myself. The last self-portrait drawing I made was almost a year ago now, so I wanted to do this as an exercise in value and my self-esteem.
I started by taking a real image of my face and breaking down the face into different regions, then using that as a guide to begin painting digitally over. I used a color palette ranging from dark reds to light pinks, and then set my iPad to display in greyscale so that I was painting in black and white the whole time. Once the face was done, I turned the greyscale display off, and my drawing so far became red and pink, very interesting looking.
The next step was to manually draw a spiderweb-like pattern over my face to gauge how I'd shatter it, originating on the left eye. I then manually cut each shard and moved them outwards to achieve the glass shattering effect. Ultimately I did this because I thought that it'd look neater than just a normal drawing of my face, and because I need more practice with illustrating realistic faces. I wasn't sure how much I liked the illustration pre-shatter.
I'm content with how this piece ended up, and I've since had a couple friends ask if they could commission me for similar pieces, so it sounds like other people liked it too!
Unshattered version of my head
Shape breakdown on an actual image of my face and the color palette used for the illustration