Practice

Last night's effort is a sketch/painting based on a picture of an East Indian woman though no information is available about the image. 

The sketch was done with mechanical pencil (HB core) then painted with Japanese watercolors.  Embellishments were done with black Muji pen, silver Sakura Pen-Touch marker, white Uni-Ball Signo pen, and black Pentel brush pen.

Part of the challenge with this piece is that the image doesn't look East Indian.  There is no sense of a darker skin tone with this pencil drawing and as a result--the eyes and teeth don't pop.  Also, the hair is too straight and has a different texture than in the source image.  Pose-wise, the source image depicts the person slightly from above which this sketch/painting doesn't achieve.  Lastly, she is too heavy (weight-wise).  

It was still good practice.  I like the couple of folds in the scarf and using the nose ring shape in the background.  I may do another version of the source image for this--to work on capturing the subject as if I'm looking at her from above and to work on looking to see the changes needed to do that.