Edit: This is actually an old drawing from 2006, which I recently scanned. I adjusted the colours to be more bright and alive and not as grey as the photo I had up before was. Looking at this drawing almost 2 years later make me recall the time I made it.. and the nice warm summer time
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This drawing I did while visiting my parents this weekend. When I saw this photo; [link] of Natalia some time back I knew I had to make a drawing of her, her look contains something special.
I wanted to make something happy with the mood of summer, therefore I kept the colours rather light. I miss summer a lot these days, seem so dark and grey here.

I know the colours are nothing like the original, I usually make the photos I use black and white to make up the colours on my own + I am really not good at using red/orange/yellow colours for skintones. I prefer the lighter more "natural lighting" ones, especially for this one, as the mood is suppose to be a light happy one.

Made with pastels and my black coal pencil for her eyelids.
12x16" / 30x40cm