Why is Jensen Ackles impossible to draw?

[eye_of_toad]

Jensen Ackles is my artistic nemesis. I can do a completely wonky drawing of Jared Padalecki and even with obvious errors it's still recognizably Jared Padalecki. Short of literally tracing, I can never get Jensen Ackles to look like Jensen Ackles.

I don't dislike this drawing/painting as a "here's a generic man" image, but I don't feel like I'm capturing a likeness at all.

At any rate, I'm beyond the halfway point of my goal of drawing faces every day in September and I've got a good shot of finishing up this sketchbook by the end of September. (I'll need to do two drawings on a few days to meet that second goal, but that shouldn't be a problem.)

Comments

[scissorsevered]

it looks really good! I especially love the eyes.

♥

[eye_of_toad]

Thanks! The face-a-day challenge that I've set for myself has been fun and eyes are nearly always my favorite part.

[amberdreams]

He's a nightmare! Everyone I know struggles with his likeness; I think it's because he's a bit too perfect, so it's hard to capture him without it looking too pretty.
Great progress on your sketchbooking!

Ackles

[eye_of_toad]

Yeah, he doesn't quite have a distinguishing feature to caricature so there's no wiggle room where you can get away with overemphasizing a certain feature while missing some other detail. He's too symmetrical and "average" so I think my brain reverts to those generic how-to-draw-a-face proportions which seem like they should be right for him, but then I end up with a generic face and not *him*.