Day Sixteen

Finished the Chevette. I should have made better use of ruler and templates, but overall, pretty happy with this.

Finished Matt and Sonny. This one have me fits. I was only slightly disappointed with my rendering of Matt. My own work makes him look much older than he is. Trying to capture Sonny was slightly more challenging. Babies don't have a lot of lines to work with. In a previous piece I just nailed my daughter's expression when she was a baby. I guess I was overconfident. Though Sonny's face is heavily shadowed in the photo, when I rendered it in sharpie it just gave him an unformed quality that was displeasing. After much Wite-Out, I went back over it carefully in pencil, working out my measurements more carefully and then rendered it lightly with the sharpie pen, only adding sharpie marker to the edges where he meets Matt's shirt. I think it reads better this way. Either way I'm fine with this piece. Matt: I hope you don't hate this.

Now I'm going to watch my Kubert DVD and hope I learn something.