Ivy is a portrait achieved using pencil drawing, with pen used to emphasise features. The patterns were drawn with permanent marker and the entire piece was then painted with acrylic paint. The ear-ring uses gold paint so that it stands out in certain lighting conditions.
The Main Piece - Ivy
A smaller A4 mock up design to practise before the final.
Final Piece - work in progress - The pen detail is being applied.
The Final Piece without any paintwork - it felt like a shame to cover up all of those patterns...
The patterns include chinese dragons, flowers and plantlife, berries and a falcon.
Close up detail on the final portrait.
