Nikki W.

[Jimmie Arroyo]

Thank you for the comments.

This may have taken less than 20 hours, maybe even less than 15. If I were paying attention to the way I work, it would have been less.

I purposely extended her neck because of the angle and simply how nice her neck is; moving down along with the braids. Completely forgetting that I had done this and being that I always measure proportionately with a pencil, I began elongating everything from the neck down. It looked OK in outline, but when I began some refining of the lines, I thought "Man, she looks big." I measured everything back based on her head and there ended up being about a full inch difference to the bottom of her chest, and about 2 inches to the pinkie of her right hand. I did tho decide to keep the arms a bit longer than life, kinda what Ingres used to do.

I gotta admit, I actually like this one also. I think mainly because it worked out the way I had planned before I started. But along the way, I was able to use artistic license and it still worked.

Thanks all again.