Another Try at Youth Portrait

I found myself staying up quite late fiddling with the sketch I did yesterday that was perhaps Miss P in 6 years time rather than at age 6. I opened yesterday's offering in Photoshop and did some cut and paste of the features - I wanted the eyes a bit closer together and the nose higher up on the face. I also did some cut and paste and rotate - I thought the nose was a bit off angle. I then used the transform tool to make the lips larger and to make the face rounder. The lines in the journal in which I sketched it began to disintegrate in this process, so I erased the ones over the face. This is what I had at the end of all that digital plastic surgery.

I think she looks younger, but still not my little Miss P. Also I think her gaze is too far to the right (her left).

I probably should have called it a day then, but I decided the lines were bugging me too much, so I tried to sketch this new version onto printer paper. Now I wish I'd used better paper as I think I would like to try adding color.

Still not really looking like her, but I think she looks a bit younger. I like the shading better, too.

Here is the original sketch for comparison.

This morning I am planning to jog for an hour on the treadmill and then get ready for the day. I will go to the life drawing class - thank you so much for the suggestions about focusing on hands and feet. I surely can use my own or the hubster's for practice. I think it was a good suggestion to continue to work on the "whole" figure and so I shall.

I am reading "Open" an autobiography by Andre Agassi and am quite enjoying it. I've always been a big fan of his. I've also downloaded the ebook "Falling Backward" a memoir by Jann Arden, a Canadian born singer/songwriter that I am a big fan of. I know I am not supposed to end a sentence with "of" but sometimes breaking rules is what I like to do. I love my iPad and am quite enjoying using it as a reader.

I hope you are well and that you are finding time for yourself today - again, I want to thank my readers, especially those of you who leave comments for helping me so much with your suggestions. I love this art community.

xoxo