Rossetti commission progress.

Here is the progress one of my recent commissions. I thought it might be interesting to share my process on this different kind of commission. You can see my initial work a few post below on this page. Here I am working on getting the colors and the softness of the painting. The original painting by Rossetti is quite sharp, with sharp edges which make it look cartoon like. I want my portrait to be a softer and more realistic rendition. As I said before she wanted me to do a copy of one of her favorite paintings but use her as the model. The next step is to add much more detail and apply more color and pop out the light and dark.