Good work. Blue renders well.

GREAT, IWISH I COULD DRAW,AND SOMEONECOULD TELL WHAT IT WAS.LOL +5

Thanks for the comments. Actually blue was just a random choice that worked well. It had been a while since I had done any figure drawing; so I bought a box of 12 cheap colored pencils at an office supply store and did a series of sketches, each with a different colored pencil. I like monocolor sketches. Drawing accurately is actually a skill that can be taught/learned. While some people have a natural ability, others can still learn with a bit of work if they have the time and interest. There are many books on the subject. An easy and commonly taught trick to learning to draw is to start with a photograph that you want to draw a picture of. Draw a grid of evenly spaced horizontal and vertical lines on the photo. Then, draw a similar grid on your drawing paper. Instead of drawing the whole picture all at once, just draw one grid square at a time. There are two reasons this works well. First, you are breaking up a complex shape into a series of smaller, easier shapes to draw. Second, as human beings we have a tendency to look at a photo of a person and see a person instead of the abstract geometric shapes that make up the shape of that person. Breaking up the photo into less recognizable shapes helps get over all the psychological baggage that comes along with identifying the picture as a person. Normally we tend to have preconceived notions of how a person (or anything else) "should" look. That leads us to artificially distort the picture. Breaking it up into abstract shapes helps to get over all the preconceived notions of how the picture "should" look and lets us see what is actually there.

Excellent work!!!

Very beautiful.

a perfect portrait