Finally got around to finishing this!

Here's an update on Adam, still quite a bit to do.

I started on a portrait of Adam, our second son, this weekend. Here are the first two days work. I know it's not much to look at so far, Adam looks funny with one eye more finished than the other!

Finished

Almost done, I'll set this aside for a few days and see if any corrections jump out at me.

Here's todays update, still not done.

I put in a couple more hours on this before calling it a night.

I worked on Michaels portrait for most of today. I still have a long ways to go. Feature wise I can see that the eyes and nose need a bit of adjusting, they're not quite right yet. I'll adjust them as I continue building layers and value.

I'm finally getting started on Michael. This portrait will be the same size as Hannah's. This is just the very beginning, trying to get the features close and some basic values established. I think his eyes are pretty close already but will certainly be tweaking them as I go.

Finished! Now on to Michael.

I'm just about finished with this. A little tweaking here and there and I'll be ready to call it done. Now to start looking for photo's of my sons, they're next.

I worked on this for several hours today. The hair still isn't finished.

Getting close.

Here's todays progress on Hannah, still not finished.

I haven't worked on this for about a week but here's tonights progress.

Here's todays progress on Hannah, still a long ways to go.

I started working on the background today.

I made a little more progress on Hannah before calling it a day. I can see that I need to tweak her eyes some, I'll do that next and then start on the background.

I'm using a sanded surface paper for this portrait, it's literally like a piece of sandpaper. For this step I've used a cream colored pencil to blend the under painting and lock it into the sanded surface. As you can see I've lost many of my darks by doing this and will have to re-establish them in the next step.