Ugly Girl 14

Her legs are curled behind her. I realized it kind of looks like her legs were chopped off

Ugly Girl 13

Two more followers, huzzah! Sorry this one is uploaded so late, Mr. and Ms. Internet. My temporary illustration gig is keeping me busy during the day.

I actually laughed while drawing Ugly Girl 13. Trying to make skinny model clothing fit on her Totoro-like body was just ridiculous. Plus the blissfully vacant stare and her equally blissful smile makes grinning unavoidable.

Ugly Girl 12

Two new followers hooray! Sorry for the sparsely drawn girl today, I have a week-long illustration gig at my old job, so I won't have that much time to get too fancy.

Ugly Girl 11

Thoughts turn to warmer weather...

Ugly Girl 10

Tried to be a little fancier with the background today. Gotta keep things interesting, especially on a Friday.

Props to Ann Kidder for introducing me to the "Romper".

Ugly Girl 9

Mmm... nothing really to say about this drawing. I remember seeing a lot of fur hats this past winter...

Smoking is bad for you.

Ugly Girl 8

Another illustrator drawing, this one's a little fancier...

Leather is hard to draw.

Ugly Girl 7

Bass and gradients!

Ugly Girl 6

Apologies loyal followers for the weekend ugly girl drought, 'twas out of town. Let Ugly Girl 6 soothe your worries with her effervescence.

Ugly Girl 5

Switching it up a little: illustrator drawing

Ugly Girl 4

She didn't turn out as ugly as I had hoped. I think she'd be uglier without the fake lashes and cool glasses (which are supposed to be tortoise shell but I guess that doesn't read very well). Modern science wins again.

Ugly Girl 3

It's surprisingly hard to draw an ugly girl without relying on unibrows and bad teeth. Cartoon people already have exaggerated features, so the range of attractiveness is broader in cartoons than it is in real life.

Ugly Girl 2

Surprise gentle imaginary readers! Another ugly girl, to make up for the fact that I was supposed to start posting these last week (there was no way you could have known!).

My poor imaginary readers... so gentle... so kept in the dark...

Ugly Girl 1

Hello imaginary audience! This is my first ugly girl! Don't expect every ugly girl to be so extravagant, coloring takes a lot of time. The purpose of this exercise is to churn out drawings, so most of the girls will be sketches.

Side benefit of this project: finding the names for the things that girls wear. Liquid leggings? Crazy.