Sept 7th: Finished Graphite Portrait

I'm posting this later in the week because my phone's been glitchy and refusing to post my blogs!  Stupid technology.  

I'm done with the 3 kids and on time!  It's a new record for me and I can only hope that my improvement continues.

The few bits that were a challenge at the end were the ribbon in the girl's hair and her necklace.   The ribbon because it's crinkled and hard to draw.  But nothing a kneaded eraser and tortillon can't handle.  It does kind of look like she has Bacon in her hair though ... haha.  The only reason I had any problem with the necklace was because I couldn't tell from the picture whether it was a heart or oval or what.  So I kind of made it in between somewhere ...

The hand of the first boy was completely fudged and I must say it's impressive fudging.   I need a picture to draw anything that's not crap.  But I just kept drawing until it looked good.  I'm proud of that hand lol.  It sounds like a stupid thing to be excited about, but I really am.

This is the best drawing I've done to date.  I'm sad I won't be there to see the reaction of whoever this is for.

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