Pearls and girls

I did this drawing several years ago. I can get pretty good when I’m in practice. Makes me want to kick myself in the ass more often and get on with it.

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This is just on a sketch pad – as you can tell by the spiral at the edge of the scan.

Just after this, I delivered a double portrait to my wife’s friend. This double portrait took me about 28 hours and is about 10″ x 14″, I believe. Sorry about the angled picture. I could have straightened it in Photoshop but didn’t want it distorted at all. I have a straight-on picture but it came out all yellow. I really need to learn how to manually control the white balance on my Digital Rebel.

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