Special circumstances tend to attract special company, at least that’s the way my weird life tends to work out. I met a phenomenal person in Iraq who had a striking profile. I decided to sketch her a few times. Here is the result of one attempt.
The images progress from raw photos of the sketch to a more processed look.
After a little outline removal and cutout work…
After a little more gimp work to selectively blend and smudge the paper-lines away (I didn’t have anything other than Iraqi college-ruled paper available)…
The final product still shows the effect of the lines on the paper near the bottom right of the image — but I either didn’t notice or didn’t care. Meh. I enjoyed this anyway.
Here are some screenshots I apparently took while doing the processing work…
That was actually pretty enjoyable, almost monk-like work.