Here is my finished portrait for the People’s Portrait Project at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond. The submission date is May 25, 2012 and you can submit as many as you want! Get to work! http://visarts.org/special-events-2

He would only sit for 5 minutes total so most of the drawing came from a photographic reference. If you have the opportunity to do so, working from life is much easier than working from a photograph. I am comfortable using photographic references but life drawing is my preference.

I sorta like it unfinished like that:) Are you going to leave it that way?
Well, I had not thought about that. I was going to leave the hair scarf as negative and parts of the shirt, for contrast.