This exercise was a drawing from a photograph created in ArtRage on the iPad. Then ported out to Etching. 

 

I created this illustration for the daughter of a friend who complemented me on another image that I created using the same technique. She had a few questions so I drew this self portrait to demonstrate how I did it. The truncated video is on my Facebook and Youtube pages.

 

The reason I chose this image as a self portrait was because I felt I may have been a little rude in answering the question "why I don't include images that aren't fairly realistic on my FB page" , and I answered "everything I do isn't for everyone to see". so I felt it was an appropriate expression. I did create the drawing and the video for her edification as a means of absolution.