This drawing was done on a 5" x 7" sheet of Stonehenge paper using Prismacolor Verithin colored pencils and a LePen technical pen for fine line details (about 5%), in the hair and eye lashes.
This is my interpretation of "Veiled", this month's subject photo by Sally Ford. The subject is so pretty I decided to eliminate all the jewelry, thereby removing distractions and focusing the viewer's attention on her beautiful face. I am not a portrait artist but I really enjoy working on illustrations of people, I use the photo merely as inspiration and a starting point. In this piece, I gave her a bit of a smile and thickened her hair. My intention was to give her a more "dream-like" quality as opposed to a photographic realness; which, quite frankly, is beyond my skills and capability.
The most challenging portion was the veil, in the beginning I had applied way too much color and had to carefully remove most of it. The end result was that it does somewhat have the appearance of veiling.
This was a good learning challenge.
Here is my interpretation of "Veiled" which I have titled
"Look of Love"
this is a copy of the
photo "Veiled" taken by Sally Ford
If you would like to join in on the challenge, here is a link that provides details and information: http://www.flickr.com/photos/coloredpencilmag/8495249165/in/pool-cpmchallenge
Take care and hope you are having a productive and happy day!
Karen Anne aka Ireland Brady
You may not be a portrait artist but I think you did an amazing job with this challenge. When you said you had to remove most of the color on the veil, just how do your do that?
ReplyDeleteThanks Maddy Rose! One way to remove excess color is to gently lay a piece of "Magic Tape" over the top, then on the tape you take a pencil and color over the area you want to lighten, next you VERY "Gently" lift the tape and it pulls of the color. You keep doing that until it is closer to what you want. If you lift the tape to quickly, you may lift the top layer of the paper (which I have done on occassion).
DeleteI really enjoy seeing your challenge interpretations-She is amazing!
ReplyDeleteThank you for your generous compliment Debbi! Wish I could do a photographic likeness, since I can't I shoot for interpretation! (LOL!) 8)
DeleteKaren Anne, she is so beautiful! She looks like she is getting married ;o)
ReplyDeleteThat is exactly what my daughter said Stacy! LOL! She called me last night to let me know she liked this piece and that she thought my skills were improving, that I wasn't leaning so heavily on cartoony ... and yet I was retaining my style. Love that girl! 8)
DeleteI can't believe we said the same thing! LOL! Beautiful comment from your daughter ;o)
DeleteI know! Isn't that uncanny?! I've only got one daughter, but she is sure a gem! 8)
DeleteYou have taken someone beautiful and made her more so, just fabulous Karen Anne :)
ReplyDeleteWell, thank you Shelle! That is really a wonderful compliment ... I'll take it!
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