Digital watercolor and pencil portrait of a faceless bearded man in glasses and flat cap, sitting on chair in front of two computer screens.

PaperFaces self portrait of Michael Rose

— by Michael Rose in PaperFaces iPad project

Thirty-four years and still kicking — a PaperFaces self portrait on my birthday. Loving the new zoom tool that made added small details to my beard fun and painless. Thanks FiftyThree!

In process sketching. Rough out shapes with watercolor and define them with pencil.

Screenshot. Painting the background with watercolor.

Screenshot. Sketching out the figure.

Screenshot. Adding detail with watercolor.

The new zoom tool is a beast and makes adding beard detail fun and easy.

Screenshot. Adding beard detail with the pencil.

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Another boring, bearded, tattooed, designer, front-end developer, and occasional illustrator who works and resides in Buffalo New York.