Looking through my old art again, I realized that all of high school was a progression toward increasingly smaller pictures, and I never fully taught myself to work big. Then I realized I have a big huge chalkboard hanging over my bed, and I never even use it. Here's my results:

Warm-up:


Warm-up:


Life-size self-portrait:


What I learned is that I'm not so bad off if my whole arm is involved, or just my fingers -- it's the midrange, when I have to work with my wrist and hold my elbow steady, that trips me up. Look at the hands in this picture, for example -- and to a lesser degree, the face. Very interesting stuff.