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Portrait WIP II

August 31st, 2009

Last Week I started a portrait of some friends’ toddler son.  At the rate I’m going, it’ll be finished just in time for him to start college.

Somehow I managed to find a few blocks of time to do a little more this week.  In twenty or thirty minute blocks, I  worked a bit on his eyes, nose, mouth, and ear.  In the final picture, you’ll see I have all of the major features blocked in, a map of the shading to be done, I have removed the grid and mounted the paper to my drawing board.  That means I had to FIND my drawing board.  Then I had to FIND tape…

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