I am curious to know how others handle the depiction of people who have had plastic surgery?
I think with the modern emphasis on looking young and unwrinkled, it will become quite an issue to portrait artists. Botox, facelifts, boob jobs, liposuction, etc, all have the effect of ruining the natural lines of a person. I have a nursing background which may influence my observations but I can spot artifice at 100 paces.
I recently attended a life drawing session where the female model had had liposuction and bottom lift and she had the oddest shaped rear end that I have ever seen. She was dented where she should have been rounded and visa versa. She thought she looked model perfect. The problem was that when she was portrayed as she was, the drawing looked wrong, obviously, so we all tried to use a bit of poetic license to modify the images. I cheated by only drawing a front view.
Has anyone encountered this problem?