Finally, I can finish my latest drawing, my grandmother’s portrait. I drew it from the photo I took last April. I tried to draw her picture before but failed. At that time I thought that my drawing ability might be limited to just animals. But after I finished Jana & Jiro, I found out that it’s the wrinkles and texture of her skin that I couldn’t achieve for the first time. So I focused more on practicing these before I started the real one.

After a week I had done about 60% of her face including the eyes, I took a photo of the drawing and view it on my computer and discovered that both of her eyes were too big and out of proportion. I was upset and didn’t know what to do. I decided to start a new one but after spending half a day sketching a new one, I thought maybe I should try to fix the old one, and if I messed up I can get on with the new one. So I erased both of her eyes and managed to fix them. After I finished her face, it took me about 2 more days to do the hair. I couldn’t really capture the messiness of her hair as in the original photo so I decided to take her to the hair salon in my drawing.