Distant stitch ch1 diploma

My self portrait needs work! Hope my drawing skills improve or should I say my observation skills. 

Distant stitch module 1

Drawing things upside down really works, suprsrised by this.

Distant stitch diploma ch 1

A drawing of my hand,pretty bad and a drawing of my daughter from memory, both fairly awful,looks nothing like my daughter, shows how your brain takes over and just draws a face.

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Distant stitch embroidery diploma gh1

So I bought this book from the reading list and am working through it, I'll show you some of my efforts

Trying out sgraffito

I was thinking of the iris and the beautiful  colours.

Distant stitch embroidery diploma course-chapter one

Distant stitch embroidery diploma course-chapter one

Continuing with my sketching,I thought I would try noses and lips.

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Not so easy to do, but I have bought the book on the reading list about drawing on the right side of the brain,I'll show some of my efforts later.

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Quite pleased with how this turned out.

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Distant stitch embroidery diploma corse-chapter one.
I decided I needed to review my drawing skills ,so I initially started following a you tube tutorial which is the result  top right. Then I drew my partner eye ,on the left and at the bottom an eye from a woman in a magazine.
My partner being my muse!