ma Victoria

A rather small scale drawing I did in my sketchbook with pens, a lead pencil and colored pencils. Added a few minor edits using Photofiltre. I wanted to do something joining optical illusions & fashion photography. I also really wanted to push my realism forward as it's been behind quite a bit. The orange hair came from a feeling I had that my new favorite singer at the time, Victoria of Beach House, was a redhead. Turns out I was wrong about that hunch..! (Whoops.) The album Bloom in all it's powerful soulful beauty is deeply inbeded in me since that period of time, and this is the drawing that this muse gave birth to. It certainly won't be the last.