Two themes from the Sketchdaily themes spoke to me today: “Portrait” and “Formal Wear”. Portraits are always great fun to make, even though it is insanely hard to get a good likeness. I like how the shadows in the hair turned out and how the many different colors of red works together. Smiles are hard to get right. Next to baby faces I think smiles are the hardest. I like how I captured her expression, she looked a little shy, but also super sweet.
“Formal Wear” is an old drawing I now found a good opportunity to finish. I had done a lot of research for it, but had initially only finished the woman. Getting the man fitted into the movement fluently was challenging. But it was also great fun completing my initial idea of having a couple dancing Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers style.