Christmas Commissions - #1

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Hello friends! It's Christmas Eve here in the States (it's only 1:30 in the afternoon, so it doesn't feel very eve-ish, yet), and it's already Christmas Day in the Eastern hemisphere, so Merry Christmas to those who celebrate, and Happy Monday to those who don't. I have been very busy, pumping out not one, not two, but THREE drawing commissions for Christmas, not unlike the three spirits who bedeviled Mister Scrooge in the famous tale by Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol. What bedeviled me, of course, was the deadline. I'd received all three of these orders just last month and had confidently proclaimed I could definitely have them finished by Christmas. Here is the first one, a portrait of a young couple, the nephew of the client and his wife. I worked from two photos, a newer one and an older one. I preferred the amount of detail and the facial expressions from the older picture, but I altered the hairstyles to fit the newer picture. I work fairly quickly in pencil, and so even though this was the largest piece (18 in x 24 in), it was done first.