Sprog-sitting my adolescent great niece today and I get my money’s worth by making her pose for me. I find it very hard to draw kids – they have weird scrunchy faces in big heads (that’ll make me popular LOL) but the only thing to do is try harder and practice, practice, practice. The one on the RHS is the last one I drew and probably the one that looks most like her, but they all have elements of her. Hooray for laptops – kept her relatively still and quiet for ages. Better than bribing her with chocolate. There’s also the little tinkly bell attached to my lovely purple silk recycled sari sketchbook, drawn with my Pilot V5 – it sounds so macho doesn’t it? Like a jet engine 🙂
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Lol charming description of your great niece! I’m sure you’ll be even more popular now, after bribing her with a laptop, you didn’t think the popularity scale could be breached right? 😛 The sketches are lovely. I particularly like how you’ve drawn the mouth. Somehow captured something quite adolescent in the expression. Really nice work! 🙂
She had a shedload of Twix too 😦
Lol, you win the honours for bribery 😛
hahaha 🙂
I know what ya mean about drawing children. Mine often just look like small adults.
Yeah – weird little critters!