Drawing048Babyjune

I’m surprised I decided to draw this picture today because it’s a sunday and I’m at work.  I didn’t want to take on anything too challenging since I’m working here late.  Nevertheless, I needed a break from the cutting.  I went into this one thinking I was just going to draw a realistic eye.  So I looked through some of my reference photos on my computer and I came across this picture.  A close up photograph of Junie when she was probably just a year old.  Those big beautiful eyes were staring at me and I thought “What the heck. I’ll just draw those eyes.”

 

I have, up to this point, been shying away from pictures Junie because her skin is so light and so smooth.  It’s a challenge to get the proportions correct when there’s so much space between the features.  Once I began drawing I was soon pleasantly surprised that my proportions were looking pretty good.  Junie’s eyes came together so surprisingly fast that I decided to draw the rest of her face.  I also attempted to stay away from the charcoal pencils unless I was looking to really darken an area up.  In all, I spent about an hour drawing this.

 

I have to say that after drawing this I have realized that this drawing-a-day thing is really actually helping a lot.

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