Managed to get another half day to work on this CP portrait as I'd love to get it finished before the weekend
I added more layers to his hat to darken the grey colour. I then worked more on his skintones and although it may not be obvious there are about 8 more layers of colour laid down (very gently with a sharp pointed pencil).
The great thing about WIP photos is that they show up errors that aren't always obvious to the naked eye ... in this case I saw that his right eye (left as we look at it) was much paler than the other one.
Then I got bored with skintones and moved onto his jacket/jumper:
again the light was poor today so the white paper has photographed with a very grey tinge
Next update:
I photographed this in a different room so now I have a 'pink' cast to the photo .... oh well!
I've added a suggestion of knitted pattern to his jacket
I do need to go back to work on his skin/beard ... but reasonably happy with progress so far.
I added more layers to his hat to darken the grey colour. I then worked more on his skintones and although it may not be obvious there are about 8 more layers of colour laid down (very gently with a sharp pointed pencil).
The great thing about WIP photos is that they show up errors that aren't always obvious to the naked eye ... in this case I saw that his right eye (left as we look at it) was much paler than the other one.
Then I got bored with skintones and moved onto his jacket/jumper:
again the light was poor today so the white paper has photographed with a very grey tinge
Next update:
I photographed this in a different room so now I have a 'pink' cast to the photo .... oh well!
I've added a suggestion of knitted pattern to his jacket
I do need to go back to work on his skin/beard ... but reasonably happy with progress so far.