Three Feet

I've been drawing a lot of feet lately. This one has plenty of creases and wrinkles because I love to draw those things:

Why feet? Maybe it's because Kevin left me this comment last week: "HEY A PRETTY GOOD WEBSITE BUT I THINK YOU SHOULD MAYBE DRAW SOME OTHER BODY PARTS TOO LIKE LEGS OR ARMS OR SOMETHIN [sic]"

Incidentally, here is this week's motto:
 

Coming up: a gift, a case study, some of my favorite things, and a profession most admirable.

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I love to draw all kinds of things, but lately I've been focusing on portraits. Faces are beautiful; they challenge me. Sometimes when I'm trying to draw my own portrait and it's going badly, I turn it into a picture of a man. So here's today's Man Version of myself:

My favorite description of a face in literature is from Willa Cather's The Professor's House:

His head was square, and the lower part of his face was covered by a reddish, matted beard. His pale eyes and fawn-coloured eyebrows were outbalanced by his mouth, his most conspicuous feature. One always remembered about Crane that unexpected, startling red mouth in a setting of kinky beard. The lips had no modelling, they were as thick at the corners as in the middle, and he spoke through them rather than with them. He seemed painfully conscious of them.

Whose mouth is this? It's Robert Crane's--a timid physics professor whose lips are as formless as his character. Someday I must draw him.