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Another little girl drawing (Original Post)
lunatica
Feb 2020
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secondwind
(16,903 posts)1. Beautiful!!
lunatica
(53,410 posts)6. Thank you
The little girl was so pretty and looked really sweet.
LiberalLoner
(10,147 posts)2. So lovely!
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,557 posts)3. Excellent!!
femmedem
(8,444 posts)4. So sensitively rendered.
The drawing conveys her inner and outer softness. Thanks for posting another one of your drawings.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)5. The material I use are the key
Its on super smooth vellum paper and I use smudgers a lot. Thats where the softness comes from.
bif
(24,006 posts)7. Very nice!
I love the simplicity of it.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)8. Children's faces are amazingly subtle
There are no hard lines anywhere. Every shadow is smooth and light. The proportions are very different to adult faces. And their hair is so soft and fine that its hard not to overwork it.
Thanks!
CTyankee
(65,032 posts)9. I love this, lunatica..
what an evocative portrait. It says so much to me...
lunatica
(53,410 posts)10. Thank you!
I really wanted to capture both her look of strong curiosity and the incredible softness of her features. I think I was successful.
CTyankee
(65,032 posts)11. yes. It was...