This little girl called Kaitlin was brave enough to be a model for me. she posed several times, usually with her dogs but finally her Dad managed to get a good photo for me to produce my first child pencil portraits from photos. Hasn't she got a cheeky grin.
I began by using sepia to draw Kaitlin's outline onto the paper, I also roughly coloured in any shaded areas to help guide me when I coloured her in properly
I used many colours to create flesh tones, I found this very difficult and kept the colours I used in my hands to ensure I did not get them mixed up to enable me to recreate the flesh colour all over her face. This was one of my more difficult pencil portraits from photos.
I fully completed Kaitlin's face before I began her hair, I wanted to ensure I would get her face shape correct before putting in any additional work on the page
I am quite pleased with this as it was my first child portrait and as they say you can only get better!!
Pencil Portraits from Photos Child Portraits in Pencil by pencil artist Karie-Ann Cooper 
