The portrait is moving along. If you compare this version to the original
(Color Play 1) you can see a few changes have been made. The perimeter size is enlarged, more shoulder was added, the circle that was suggested in the background has been moved to the upper left corner and shadows/lines have been made very black for added contrast. In my head I have a plan for this but need to work through it a bit more before I discuss it.
As mentioned in my previous post, I am struggling with wanting to make the whole image vector art; but considering that this will likely never be printed larger than 20x20 inches—I should be in the clear keeping half my original flawed marker/ink/color pencil work and half vector art. This is going to be much more of a complex image than originally planned. I added more vector accents than I expected but love clean line paired with strong colors. No need to hold back if I am my own Art Director. Worst case scenario, I delete them if they bug me in the end.
The interesting thing about creating images is that when you are the person creating the layers, seeing the errors, categorizing all the options you chose not to move forward with, you take on a warped idea of what your work is doing as a whole. It is usually at this point that I set a piece aside and revisit it at a later date with fresh eyes. However, I am excited about the background concept and have a feeling I will not set this aside until that is complete. Ideally, this will be close to being done by this weekend-early-next-weekish.
