First Try at Portrait Painting
A big chunk of my art practice in 2025 was focused on figure drawing. The effort worth it. My sense of proportions for the human form is much improved. Not perfect, but improved.
What’s still lacking is my ability to draw faces, stylized or realistic. I don’t think I’m face-blind, but when it comes to putting more than a smiley face on a round head, “arting” is still a struggle.
Anyhow, this is my first concerted attempt at a portrait. My reference is a photo of Sophia Lillis that was posted on Reddit.
The process of rendering, adding color, wasn’t inherently difficult (not that I did a great job), but what had me tearing my hair out was her facial proportions. I should have saved earlier steps in the process, because, lol, she started out looking like a middle-aged woman.
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