a work in progress

a work in progress -- i wanted to draw a picture of my son, scott, and my granddaughter, raven (his neice). i'm 1/2 done. i started w/ the hat and was so pleased w/ that i was afraid to go on for fear of goofing it all up. then i did his face (skin) and was so happy w/ that i was afraid to go on for fear of goofing it all up. then i put his hair in and was happy w/ that, but NOW i'm afraid to go on and try to draw raven for fear of messing it up.


i used two photos to come up w/ the picture that i want to draw. in this picture, i liked the pucker and expression on scott's face (but NOT the beer caps on his hat -- so i left those off!), but raven's face didn't have too cute of an expression on it and i couldn't see her eyes. my artistic talents are not good enough that i can draw/color something that i cannot see, so i had to have a picture to look off of. the previous picture taken of scott and raven showed scott lifting raven up into the air before bringing her down to kiss her.


i used raven's face from the picture (or i'm planning to use that face when i get it done!) where she is laughing and scott's face from the picture where he is puckered up to create the picture that i'm attempting to draw right now. i've spent quite a bit of time on this picture so far, but this is a new experience for me to do several thin layers and build up color rather than trying to get color in 1 or 2 layers or 1 "blending" of 2 shades. i just kept reminding myself of felicity's comment on her blog where she was not happy with her picture she had drawn and said that she did what she did best -- she just kept adding a little here and a little there. that's what i've been doing on the shading on scott's face.

this picture is on a 11x14 page of 65# white sketch pad paper and done w/ prang colored pencils. it isn't finished yet, so nothing has been protected w/ spray finish.