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| Can you tell the difference? |
These two gave me double vision!
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| Subtly different frames. |
In a very sweet gesture, a stepmom hired me to draw her husband’s two daughters with their mom, who is deceased. She wanted the girls to know that she accepts and understands their mother will always be “mom.” For her part, she wanted the girls to get equal treatment for Christmas: Two identical drawings, done at the same time, in similar frames.
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| Double vision! |
I thought about doing one, and then the other. But I decided it would be more efficient, and more accurate, to do them both simultaneously. So I set up the papers and pencils on separate drawing boards and got started, doing the eyes and hairlines first — as usual.
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| Labeled, like identical twins. |
Photos would be sent back and forth to the customer, with Post-It notes attached so that we could tell the drawings apart.
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| No. 418 |
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| No. 417 |
Soon I was shading in cheekbones and eyebrows, and other facial details. I’d move from desk to desk, cheek to cheek, nose to nose.
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| Photo I was given to work from. |
After a couple of weeks they were finished — not identical, but as close to that as possible. No two drawings are ever alike!
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| Fitting the frame. |
The drawings are numbered and labeled separately, and the frames though similar are also slightly different to help tell them apart.
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| Details emerging. |
These had been under wraps since August but were finally unwrapped at Christmas.
All three ladies look very nice. And this was such a nice gesture, a wonderful idea. I was glad to make it happen.
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