Portrait_battle #9. Step by step.

Hello everybody!

Today in the contest the portrait battle in the Instagram where I participate was 9 portrait. It was a complex photo of a girl with an openwork shadow on her face. It was necessary to convey the shadow in such a way that the girl's face didn't disappear behind flecks of light. It was very difficult. While I was drawing, I wasn't left feeling that I was drawing a spider-man :)) So it seemed to me like a mesh on the girl's face to the costume of a famous movie hero.

This work took me 7 hours. Very hard work. I decided to do it with watercolour, because the shadow is very beautiful soft colours that are very suitable for watercolour technique.

As always, I publish the work process step by step. I hope that you will like it.

Such was the reference:

Step by step.

For complex portraits, I usually do a sketch on a tracing paper so as not to smear paper.

Then I transfer the drawing to watercolour paper.

Previous works are here:
<<<Portrait_battle #8
<<<Portrait_battle #7
<<<Portrait_battle #6
<<<Portrait_battle #5
<<<Portrait_battle #4
<<<Portrait_battle #3
<<<Portrait_battle #2
<<<Portrait_battle #1

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