This one is going to be fun! The young guy in this portrait has commissioned the drawing for his girlfriend for Christmas. It’s a great pose…very different to the usual portraits I get to do…but the photo was taken at close range with a flash, so some of the features have been flattened somewhat… my challenge this time will be to have good modelling and a good range of tones in the facial features.

I’m doing this one on Fabriano Artistico (ya..I finally got my hands on my favourite paper again YAY!) …size is 8×10″ with a nice tight crop so the whole of the image area will be covered in graphite. The Fabriano allows me to make some really nice rich darks without too much shine as is common with graphite…so that background will be solid black…I think I’ll start there to set the overall tone of the piece………..off to the drawing board!

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