Portrait Artist Forum - View Single Post

Susan Soto · 11-03-2002, 09:26 PM

Thank you so much for your words of wisdom. This portrait was done from a photo which I will post here also. The original portrait shadowing is not so choppy. This is not a scanned in picture but a digital photo. I think that hurt the the changing values and showed some lines of demarcation that I wish were not there.

I agree with the forehead thing but I am not sure if it was my drawing or the picture I was working from. It was a professional photo so I would not think there would be any distortion. Also I did not know this little girl and had never seen her live. She is 24 years old today and her parents wanted this reproduced.

This portrait was done in powdered graphite and powdered charcoal applied with various objects, my favorite being a paintbrush.

11-03-2002, 09:26 PM	#3
Susan Soto Associate Member Joined: Nov 2002 Location: Atlanta, GA Posts: 8	Thank you so much for your words of wisdom. This portrait was done from a photo which I will post here also. The original portrait shadowing is not so choppy. This is not a scanned in picture but a digital photo. I think that hurt the the changing values and showed some lines of demarcation that I wish were not there. I agree with the forehead thing but I am not sure if it was my drawing or the picture I was working from. It was a professional photo so I would not think there would be any distortion. Also I did not know this little girl and had never seen her live. She is 24 years old today and her parents wanted this reproduced. This portrait was done in powdered graphite and powdered charcoal applied with various objects, my favorite being a paintbrush. Attached Images __________________ Susan Soto AKA BobbyLouSue (My true southern name not my birth name. I mean at one minute old with a pencil in your hand no one listens to what you think your name should be).