Sept 10th: Graphite Portrait

Babies.  They're soft, squishy and pretty much all look the same when you're drawing them.  I'm not complaining!  It just makes it that much easier to crank out a drawing!

I think that I'm going to be able to finish this one in 3 days.  Maybe 2.  It all depends on how distracted I get.  I'll be really surprised if I don't finish it on Tuesday.  There's not much complication to it.  The hat is knitted which in the past would scare me, but since I've developed a technique with tortillons for knitted hats, I'm not intimidated anymore.  There's also a large flower on the hat, but if I don't over-obsess with detail and just draw, I should be ok.  That's the trick though. 

I think that the lighting in the photo is slightly garish and the drawing actually gives a more peaceful feel to the kid.  Also, after working on all those older kids, it's messing with my sense of proportion.  I mean, if you tried to draw irises on an older person as big as they are for this baby, they'd look like an alien!  But babies have weird proportions all their own and that's helpful to remember.