I've been busy honing my portrait drawing and painting skills and find myself attempting to replicate faces I wouldn't have even dared or known where to start. Georgette Chen's work led to a fascination with Asiatic features, the obvious almond shaped eyes, porcelain skin and distinct bone structure. I liked the following work of Chen's and copied it using Neocolour II's.

Georgette Chen's portrait of a young woman

My mixed media version

I was pleased with the shape of the eyes and face. The colours are obviously brighter but then the medium used was different to that of the original.

I looked at many different Asian portraits during my research and chose a few to try to draw. I liked this Malaysian beauty with her huge eyes and pouty mouth, deciding to leave it as a pencil sketch. I love the way she is looking skywards and has a dreamy expression. I need to do alot of work with recreating hair in pencil!

Malaysian girl pencil sketch