Thank you! Which part of it gives you trouble? I'm serious, I'm not kidding. I've been doing beaucoup articles all intended to help people draw like this and if it's the landscape or the little face or (and this was the toughest part for me) doing a person with glasses, I can probably help.
I actually goofed on the underpainting and painted right over her mouth. I was so concerned with leaving highlights on her glasses that I painted right over her mouth and those big white teeth... but a close look at the photo showed me they were in shadow and she'd have looked goofy if I did them as bright as the glasses highlight. What I am proudest of in this one is those glasses. I almost never get the outer shape of eyeglasses right. The lenses are weird shapes and each pair is different, so I can't start with a known variable like the shape of someone's upper eyelid but have to go around a blob shape yet get it exactly the same and do another one that's perfectly symmetrical -- yet at a slightly different angle... glasses are a pain. This time I did not completely go around them and the broken line of the frames really made it work, because the frames are plastic and shiny too. Something else I goofed on most of the time drawing or painting glasses. Less is more on glasses. lol
I actually goofed on the underpainting and painted right over her mouth. I was so concerned with leaving highlights on her glasses that I painted right over her mouth and those big white teeth... but a close look at the photo showed me they were in shadow and she'd have looked goofy if I did them as bright as the glasses highlight. What I am proudest of in this one is those glasses. I almost never get the outer shape of eyeglasses right. The lenses are weird shapes and each pair is different, so I can't start with a known variable like the shape of someone's upper eyelid but have to go around a blob shape yet get it exactly the same and do another one that's perfectly symmetrical -- yet at a slightly different angle... glasses are a pain. This time I did not completely go around them and the broken line of the frames really made it work, because the frames are plastic and shiny too. Something else I goofed on most of the time drawing or painting glasses. Less is more on glasses. lol
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