Casey portrait in progress 5 - Working on larger paper

I'm working on the landscape behind Casey. The artwork is really starting to come together now!

The crop marks show where I’ll trim it down to the 12 x 13 size Doug requested. As you can see, I work past the edges of those 12 x 13 margins when I’m doing the landscape. This is the whole sheet of paper, scanned.

I always work on larger paper and trim it down at the end. Sometimes I give the client the option to leave it as is, a bigger artwork than they paid for, if I think it looks good that way. Sometimes it looks better trimmed.

🎨 Prismacolor pencil on white Canson Mi-Teintes paper, 11 x 14 inches.

“Casey” (GCHS Ch. Marrics Just In Case With Grand Oaks).

Commissioned by Doug Eicher.

From reference photos taken by Doug and a show photo by Lexi D Photography (Alexandria Darienzo).