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Five years ago, the song "83" hit the radio airwaves like a meat pie. It was so delicious, everyone wanted a piece of John Mayer despite rumors of his impossible arrogance. Soon, the album "Room For Squares" was selling like hot scandal. Wherever I went around the college campus, people had John Mayer up to their ears. Bookmarks, stickers, pirated CDs, lyric sheets, boyfriend-look-alike's.

Anyway, I loved the songs, not John Mayer. I scanned the liner notes of the CD and found out that one of my fave soul-jazz musicians helped in the production and recording of the said album. I'm talking about Michael MacDonald, former member of The Doobie Brothers, and composer of the song "What A Fool Believes". Note: If you don't know what I'm talking about in here, I suggest you start downloading the songs from Limewire or wherever and see for yourself. And, yes, it's all good!

It can not be avoided. John Mayer became a topic in every conversation on campus. So I struck up a conversation with a schoolmate, Datu, who was taking up Studio Arts. He thought the John Mayer craze is just that... a craze, but the songs are okay. I agreed. And then I veered the chat towards portraiture because I was just plain sick of John Mayer. I asked Datu how is it a lot of colored portraits look too tangerine and not like normal skin.

"Green!", he said.

"What?"

Datu then spoke of a professor who once told them in class that human skin contains a bit of green color and that not everybody knows that. He said when green is mixed into the skin tones, it balances out the oranges from being too saturated. But too much of green causes the skin to look dead.

After giving it some thought, I went and started a portrait just to see if the green-technique would make it look okay. I chose colored pencils so that I can erase mistakes easier compared to acrylics. It was just an experiment. Besides, I don't usually work with colors, and pencils hate me.

And this is the resulting image. I don't like the rendering because it is impatient; colors bunched up in random areas. But I figured that, yes, green works fine on skin tones.

So why did I draw John Mayer? The CD liner notes was lying on the floor, it had his photo in it, and it was the first thing I saw when I entered my cave.

© 2002
Thanks for looking!

medium: Faber-Castell colored pencils

Description
Five years ago, the song "83" hit the radio airwaves like a meat pie. It was so delicious, everyone wanted a piece of John Mayer despite rumors of his impossible arrogance. Soon, the album "Room For Squares" was selling like hot scandal. Wherever I went around the college campus, people had John Mayer up to their ears. Bookmarks, stickers, pirated CDs, lyric sheets, boyfriend-look-alike's.

Anyway, I loved the songs, not John Mayer. I scanned the liner notes of the CD and found out that one of my fave soul-jazz musicians helped in the production and recording of the said album. I'm talking about Michael MacDonald, former member of The Doobie Brothers, and composer of the song "What A Fool Believes". Note: If you don't know what I'm talking about in here, I suggest you start downloading the songs from Limewire or wherever and see for yourself. And, yes, it's all good!

It can not be avoided. John Mayer became a topic in every conversation on campus. So I struck up a conversation with a schoolmate, Datu, who was taking up Studio Arts. He thought the John Mayer craze is just that... a craze, but the songs are okay. I agreed. And then I veered the chat towards portraiture because I was just plain sick of John Mayer. I asked Datu how is it a lot of colored portraits look too tangerine and not like normal skin.

"Green!", he said.

"What?"

Datu then spoke of a professor who once told them in class that human skin contains a bit of green color and that not everybody knows that. He said when green is mixed into the skin tones, it balances out the oranges from being too saturated. But too much of green causes the skin to look dead.

After giving it some thought, I went and started a portrait just to see if the green-technique would make it look okay. I chose colored pencils so that I can erase mistakes easier compared to acrylics. It was just an experiment. Besides, I don't usually work with colors, and pencils hate me.

And this is the resulting image. I don't like the rendering because it is impatient; colors bunched up in random areas. But I figured that, yes, green works fine on skin tones.

So why did I draw John Mayer? The CD liner notes was lying on the floor, it had his photo in it, and it was the first thing I saw when I entered my cave.

© 2002
Thanks for looking!

medium: Faber-Castell colored pencils