Commissioned Portrait of a Niece
Greetings, everyone
As I promised yesterday, and taking advantage of the muses, here I share a pencil drawing portrait I made of one of my nieces, Santiago's sister, April Samantha.
Process
This potrait posed a challenge. Santiago had very expressive eyes, Samantha has an incredibly expressibe smile with prominent cheeks. It was very hard to capture that smile. I am not sure I did it. I tried to be more meticulous with the measures this time. That allowed me to make someadjustments from the first draft.
I had a couple of pictures of my niece to look at as models and tried to combine elements form both. That was a bit complicated.
I had the shape of the torso and clothes first and left the hard part for later.
I do not know how many times I erased and redid the mouth. I had to settle at some point for this version. Probably I was looking at the wrong detail and the problem was not exactly in the mouth.
Anyway, I had fun working on this portrait. I sent it to my brother and he liked it. The children loved them. Actually, he is now bragging about it with his friends and now wants portraits of his wife and himself. We'll see.
Original photograph
Beatiful
Thanks!
Bello trabajo, @hlezama.
Saludos.
Muchas gracias, @rjguerra
Nice work mate. That drawing came out really well. Keep up the good work!
Thank you very much.
Hola amigo @hlezama,
Felicitaciones por tan buen dibujo de tu nieta. Talento más allá de la escritura.
Gracias, @janaveda
Es una sobrinita. Hija de mi hermano menor, quien vive actualmente en Perú.
Una de las cosas que agradezco a #hive es permitirme explorar talentos olvidados.
Amigo... disculpa tan garrafal error, claro, en nada desdice de tus talentos, el dibujo, por abandonado que estuviera, también se te da bien.
¡Oye, este retrato es una belleza bellezura!
Jaja. Gracias, @adncabrera
Samantha es una bellezura. Ojala pueda conocerla en persona pronto. Ahora que le regalé este retrato, me dice mi hermano que le ha dado por dibujar.