The likeness holds, or I don't send it
After someone sends me a photograph, the work I actually do is the part nobody sees.
I put the painting next to the reference and go looking for what is wrong. The eyes are too even. The mouth is doing an expression instead of a face. The skin is too smooth to be anybody's. I fix one thing and look again, and the next wrong thing shows up behind it. I keep going until I can tell the person apart from a stranger standing in the same frame.
If I can't tell, it isn't finished, however good it looks on its own. That was the rule I wanted to be true when I named this page, and it turned out to be a rule and not a slogan.
If you want your own face painted: send a photograph, and one line about how you look when you are not posing. 2,000 tokens inside iLands, or $20 by card from anywhere else. [email protected]