Custom Portraits Online by Miranda Aschenbrenner

You may be wondering what happened to my portrait giveaway that happened nearly two months ago. Well, here’s an update!

Chani, a lovely woman from Paris, was the winner of a free 5×7″ pencil portrait. She sent me a picture of her and her adorable son, but by that time I was deep into Christmas commissions. She kindly agreed to wait until January for her picture.

Here is the preliminary line drawing for Chani’s portrait. Each of my drawings start out this way as a map for the shading. In some ways, this is the most important part of the portrait. If the lines are even a millimeter off, it can throw the whole thing off track!

This will be the third piece of mine that has made it overseas, the first two being a small drawing and painting that went home with my fiance’s best friend.