'confliction isn't a word'

The usefulness of having a blog - i can put all the crap i don't want to put on DeviantArt, here!
A couple of drawings, the first a quick sketch of a very happy baby. It kind of reminds me of one of the Seven Dwarfs. I'm in two minds about using big expressions like this but i'm not going to limit myself. Who knows what'll happen. Happy accidents, lovely things.
But yes, just a very quick sketch. You can tell by just how scrappy it is, i do however, think that i sometimes capture more character and life when i draw quickly. Portraiture is tricky.
The second is a work in progress. I really quite hate it, the iris is really testing my patience and i have this feeling i'll wreck it somehow. Bah humbug.
I think i need to start working on a bigger scale. Not just because it seems to be the scale of the time but because it will in fact, have a better impact. Either that, or i have to go really small. Like my self-portrait in first year.
I'm not panicked but this project is doing my head, i'm in constant conflict!

Something today did however, make me rather cheery and that was remembering Vincent Brown, who i encountered last year? on DeviantArt. I was pretty much in awe of the immense detail he puts into his work and was flabbergasted - amazing word- when he complimented me on the above mentioned self-portrait.
It was then great to see his work displayed in the flesh at The National Portrait Gallery's BP Portrait Award in Edinburgh. I wasn't sure at first but then had a little fit of glee at realising it was Mr Brown's work.
I like it when things like that happen =]

death cab for cutie - the ice is getting thinner