I’ve had so much fun painting and sketching the lovely Dayris from Sktchy in oil (above), and before that, in pencil and then doing a digital sketch in Procreate (below). Also below you’ll find a slide show of the work in progress. Doing the two initial drawings really helped me quickly get a pretty accurate drawing for the oil painting. You can see her reference photo on Sktchy here.
Below are the steps in the process of making the portrait.
Initial pencil drawing of Dayris, 12×9″ 
Digital Sketch of Dayris in Procreate 
Umber underpainting 
Some background and shirt 
Some paint on face 
Icky background in with palette knife 
More work on background, still icky 
Background better but not happy with shirt or hair 
Almost done 
Scraped off shirt and some hair to redo Portrait of Dayris, Oil on Arches Oil Paper, 10″x8.5″
2 replies on “Three Portraits of Dayris”
….the cherry on the cake is how you even transmitted to the viewer the twinkle in her eye
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Thanks! That’s such a sweet comment. She seems like such a twinkly happy person!
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