Back to Basics

So after a failed experiment with pointillism using pen and watercolour, I just decided to abandon the technique for the moment and decided to just go back to the basics of colour pencils, using lines to create the portrait, but sadly had to use a reference.

Then again, it's Shu Pei, a pretty good Chinese model anyways.

 Portrait of a Woman, Jubilee Tai, Colour Pencils 2012

Face Shots

Face shots are a lot harder to capture than you think. Out of the like 1939384852734 number of pictures I captured, only 1 I felt was truly worthy of displaying here :/ It's not even the skill of zipai, but rather it is one of those cases where you really feel the importance of a photographer or an eye to see what is happening on the screen to capture the right picture at the perfect angle.