Positively Charming Things

I worked on my initial sketch of my daughter tonight, and after two tries and then some clean up to lighten the pencil marks for painting, here it is: [caption id="attachment_79" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Final sketch of my daughter"][/caption] I can hardly wait to start painting it, though I may not get to that until tomorrow night after a family outing, due to the late time tonight. 😊  Then again I may try starting with some skin tone mixing on scrap paper to get an…

Based on one of my previous posts where I said I was going to start back into drawing and watercolors.. well, here is my first project: [caption id="attachment_75" align="alignnone" width="225" caption="my daughter"][/caption] On an artists' forum I recently joined, it was suggested in a class that was done back in 2006, to try overlaying a the reference photograph and the sketch to get an idea of where any tweaks or fixes may be needed.  I did that and there are a few spots that I will need to…