Some Work on a Old Project

I've been working on this old project for a few months. This is how it looked when I dropped it more than a year ago. I really liked how the face was coming along, but I hated how the body looked.



The figure looked hunched, with a too large head. Maybe the problems weren't really that bad, but it wasn't what I had in mind.

I knew the problem began with my less than ideal reference pictures. I had stitched together two images in Photoshop, a low res screen capture for the head shot composited onto a male body in a relaxed pose. Unfortunately what wasn't apparent to me in the composite, jumps out in the sketch. I guess these are the perils of relying too much on Photoshop :-)

I erased and redrew the figure many times trying to capture the look I wanted. I didn't have any luck until I finally talked my husband into a modeling session and tried to recreate the pose I wanted.

With the new reference images in hand I finally got a sketch I could live with. I have definitely abused this Canson Mi-Tientes paper very much in the process, but it seems to be holding up. This is what it looks like now. I'm excited about it again and I'm moving ahead.



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