Husb and I have a small visitor having a sleepover. He’s 10 and his face is starting to elongate but still has childlike chubbiness. Very young faces are so hard to draw, no wrinkles, no saggy bits, very few visual cues to go on. I used graphite into my A5 Tate Gallery sketchbook.
Why do children have such impossibly huge eyelashes?
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You are so good at this, it’s humbling. I keep sketching my kids faces but it goes wrong.
Thank you. It’s practice. Kids are especially difficult. They are little aliens who don’t conform to proper proportions 😉
Your sketch is great. And the boy is a real beauty. Maybe children have such huge eye lashes because they are already full grown as opposed to the rest of the head/body. 😉 Have a lovely start to the week!
Thank you. I hadn’t realised that lashes were fully grown. That explains it 🙂 Have a great week
Oh, I don’t know for sure if this is the reason for it. It was only a suggestion. 😉
Sounds very plausible to me 😀
To me, too. 😉
This is a lovely, sensitive portrait. I have a further question on eyelashes–why is it that the boys usually get the longest lashes?
I know!?! It’s so annoying. He doesn’t know how gorgeous he is though.
What a beautiful face. 😀
He’s a beautiful little boy. Love him to bits 🙂