Gabriella drawing WIP 6

This is a bit unusual showing it with me in the shot, but I needed it for something so here I am in all my aging beauty… at least you can see the size this way

I have thought long and hard about the title and I’m going with the most direct  and open,,,“Gabriella” it does have a narrative but each person needs to find that for themselves.  I want this to represent a universal young woman, pretty, and venerable at the same time-innocent and timeless. Although it’s the hair that interested me to draw this, I think her story emanates from her eyes.

 I think I’m half-done 450 hours so far or a bit more,80% of this drawing will be this wild curly hair.  I’m working from about 60 photos that I took of the model and have very light hash  marks akin to a grid which are hard to pick up at the scale you’re seeing it.  I use grids or hash marks for large works preferring not to use them on small drawing.  

Thanks for looking Armin