Picture reference used with permission of the delightful , but the 'Alone Time' title was shamefully stolen kidding kidding Original piece can be seen here. Give the rest of her gallery a look too. You won't be disappointed

This was originally a rough pencil sketch that I did a while back that, once completed, I was going to submit along with an earlier image based from 's work. Guess you could call it a double bill

But I wasn't too pleased with it as it was (how can you illustrate perfection and have it live up to its predecessor?) and couldn't see how it could be improved. So it sat in my pad for a while until my girlfriend Leanne saw it, liked it and wanted me to finish it off. So I finished the pencil work, then wondered what else I could do with it. Could I use markers like before? Maybe do pencil or ink shading?

After some thought I decided to use a different medium to finish it off with, something I haven't used in a while- acrylic paints. They had worked for me with my Miller Beanotown series (which I need to add more on), but as I already did the lovely Jackie here in monochromes already, I thought I'd go with some colour instead.

It went better than I expected, though it is rough in places (the bracelets were a particular pain), but everything else came off rather well in execution.

As for a contextual meaning to the piece...well, I'll leave that for you all to decipher

Materials Used: 4H pencil, acrylic paints, photo reference.
Time Taken: 3 hours total for painting. Another hour and a half for the pencil work.