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Portrait

It has taken me a while but I have finally completed a second project for my Artist badge. I have drawn a portrait in coloured pencil of the iconic model Twiggy. I haven't done a full colour human portrait since my days at uni so my confidence was lacking and my skills a bit rusty during this task.

I spent quite a lot of time on the drawing, completing an hour or two here and there. I struggle to focus on drawing for long periods of time and to be honest I didn't really enjoy doing the portrait. The only part I can say I did enjoy was colouring in the earrings as this felt more relaxing and required less intense focus. Another reason I found the portrait difficult was because the quality of the print out I was drawing the image from wasn't very good and it was difficult to see details in the image. I was looking at a digital image on my phone some of the time for better clarity but this was a bit of an awkward method of doing things.

However, even though I didn't really enjoy this task as much as I thought I would I do feel happy with the final drawing. It isn't perfect for a number of reasons such as the bottom lip isn't quite the right shape and both the eyes aren't quite right. Also the skin tone is rather pale. I considered attempting to correct these things but sometimes it's best just to leave things be. In trying to fix things, it is possible to make things worse instead. My drawing isn't perfect but that's okay. 



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