Work in Progress.

started to create image in Adobe Illustrator. This includes the very beginnings of tone and colour, along with basic line. I hope to develop this into a more refined work.

here more tonal detail has been added, as well as some texture. Most of the initial black lines have been removed or painted over.

This is the same image zoomed in to 2400% whilst i work on the face and especially the eyes. Currently working on the right eye.

As you can see, the image is gradually becoming more sophisticated. Increasing layers of  mark making have been added over the last three hours.

After the initial start with the face, it becomes quickly easier to develop texture, and depth of mark. This next screen shot was take only twenty minutes after the last, and yet i feel i have achieved a lot in this time.

This shot is only five minutes from the last.
Things to do now:
-Sort out the face shape
- give the hair more texture
- add more tone to the face defining it

Focusing on the face makes the difference between objective and subjective,

I'm really annoyed! There is something SO not right about the face (which i keep on playing around with) but cannot get it quite right. It's bugging me. However, i think this version is at least an improvement!

I'm tempted to say this is finished. However, 1/ I'm a firm believer in the theory that no piece of art is ever finished, and 2/ I've just stopped because i'm tired of it now!