Earlier in the day, I was browsing photos on my computer and found a favorite of Miss P taken several years ago. I love the photo and think the sketch I did is a good one; it just doesn't look like the photo. I have a real hard time getting youngsters to look young. While I don't think she looks old, I also don't think she looks like she is only 6 years old.
Here is the reference photo - I can see already that I made the face too long and too narrow.
My son just picked up Miss K to take her to school. She had breakfast and got ready here. My son works the 6 pm to 6 am shift at work, so will take her to school before going home to get some sleep. Miss Z just got up and is sitting, snuggling with Papa in the living room. I am planning to go to my conditioning class at 9:30 and hope to see my friends Nancy and Julia there. Later today after Miss Z is picked up by her mother, the hubster and I will be going into town to pick up supplies for our Sunday family get together.
Miss Z is on the move and will need some attention any minute now. I think I will fix her some cereal and fruit for breakfast.
I hope you are having a good day and that you are making time for yourself.
xoxo
I can relate about drawing children. The younger they are, the harder I find them to draw. I think it's because they have such wide areas of really not much definition - their cheeks are round, their foreheads are smooth. Babies are the absolute hardest for me. I agree the sketch is good while not looking like her (this is often what I end up with - fine, but not like the picture!).
ReplyDeleteHard to get kids' drawings and paintings to look as young as they are - there is something fresh about them that is easily overworked; with a drawing, too, we tend to draw it as if they are face toward us even when they are not. I think rounding her face a bit to get those cheeks in would make it look more like her :) Beautiful red hair!!! I'd have to try to paint her :)
ReplyDeleteSounds like your little visitors are keeping you very busy. Keep sketching, good to see what you do.
ReplyDeleteYou have improved SO much lately. I'm very impressed. Keep growing! Looking forward to seeing you soon. Jan
ReplyDeleteIt is a great drawing and you have already figured out why she doesn't look so young. So try another sketch making her face rounder. Hmmm, make sure you keep and date the sketch you have done already. It would be fun to compare it with a picture of her later when her face will have thinned out more as she grew a bit older. You may be right on at that point!
ReplyDeleteShe is one cute kid ... I can see why you want to draw her. I am taking a portrait drawing class. At the first class, she made us TRACE the features off a full size photo then work on shading the eyes, nose and mouth in. The next week we did it without tracing but it was easier to place the features after having traced them. Just a thought ...
ReplyDeleteWonderful sketch, even if you haven't exactly captured her age! And, you've answered your own question: As we get older, our faces usually get longer and narrower!
ReplyDeleteIt's a very nice sketch ans a cute child :)
ReplyDeleteIt is a very good sketch and I just bet that it will look just like her when she's about 2 or 3 years older! Be sure and keep it. hugs, nancy
ReplyDeleteIt is a good sketch, but you have the distance between her nose and upper lip too long, children's features are more compressed, closer together, eyes seem larger than in a adults face, noses are smaller/shorter (as they will grow for our entire lives, the older the face the larger/longer the nose) and yes the head seems/is rounder because of this.
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