A friend of my mother commissioned me to do a family portrait. The family had a couple of photos taken, I then stitched the best photo of each face together and sketched it. Instead of going overboard with detail I opted to only focus on the detail in the faces and to leave the rest simple. I did use word as a shading device – the clients had seen the Marilyn Monroe Sketch and liked the word detail so I made their sketch a bit more personal in the same way. This is the result:
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