Sister study

Before I completed the pastel of my sister in an earlier post, I did a study from the photo. The graphite sketch isn't bad and actually came out better than the colored pencil versions that followed it.

 

I think one of the tendencies I've noticed in most of my portraits is that the subject ends up looking older than they are. In this particular study, she looks younger. I'm not sure why. 

Nose and lips

I'm fighting with my scanner and had wanted to show some sketches I've done in the last week but since I could not get it to work, here is a little thing I did a few weeks ago: