At last! It was a very demanding and tiring task but it is complete now. I have achieved what I wanted, the ability to do beautiful pastel portraits.

The change in style and quality is obvious as I progressed. For the first 50 or so I was mainly interested in finding a style and method. After I became comfortable with that I refined the accuracy of the work.

I only drew 1 portrait live, my wife felt sorry for me and posed. Every other portrait was drawn from random photos. You will see a lot of repeats in the subjects. When I got bored with the same photos I would go to the web and grab another random photo or two. I mainly drew children. This was to force me to be sensitive in my work.

you can watch the short movie on my blog site – thecreativeartist and you are welcome to add comments.