Your expertise would be most appreciated

[JennieJo]

All just planning images. Because it was just for fun, it's on burgandy card ♡

Heaven forbid, I've decided to sketch my 10 year old granddaughter. Now that I've started I want to finish it for her. I have read, researched ... ad nauseum but I can't turn my 'pre-knowledge' off. She has huge brown eyes and that's how I draw them. Way too big for a kids face. And, it looks too harsh.

I've tried geometric angle combination, every YT hint I can find. No luck. I'm only in the draft stage, and I'm changing the image as I think that adds extra complexity, she is looking up at 45 degree angle at a butterfly.

 

[JennieJo]

All just planning images. Because it was just for fun, it's on burgandy card ♡

Heaven forbid, I've decided to sketch my 10 year old granddaughter. Now that I've started I want to finish it for her. I have read, researched ... ad nauseum but I can't turn my 'pre-knowledge' off. She has huge brown eyes and that's how I draw them. Way too big for a kids face. And, it looks too harsh.

I've tried geometric angle combination, every YT hint I can find. No luck. I'm only in the draft stage, and I'm changing the image as I think that adds extra complexity, she is looking up at 45 degree angle at a butterfly.

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This morning's effort. Pastels, chalk on canvas from an oil pad

. A4 . She looks like a teenager here (her mother says I'm capturing her inner age ), I'm going to envision her as 5 years old in the next one. Might hit midway.