#elysiahdraws

The reference for this piece was a photo of my friend, which I had edited on PicsArt. 

From the edit, I managed to produce an acrylic portrait (with some details over the top in watercolour pencil) of her split into two with a white string connecting her two “outer parts”. Her outer expression is rather difficult to depict - despite the words on her face reading “HAPPY”.

Coming out of her head is her “inner part”, which was inspired by a photo I had taken of the sun setting giving a more calm tone to the piece in watercolour for the background. The details of the trees were done in black fine liner and permanent marker.

The interesting parts of this piece is that certain parts of the original photo are edited within my drawing. For example: the bouquet of flowers is from the actual image but duplicated, blended with a “lens blur” brush and I used a “vegetation” brush to add more vibrantly coloured petals in blue and some extra foliage.