A fairly easy drawing to copy, but the challenge comes with getting the multitude of colors in the face close, and matching the background and jacket colors. Part of learning to paint is making up lots of colors, shades, and tints from 6 or 7 basic colors. This took about 1 hour for the drawing, 3 hours in class for most of the painting, and about an hour to finish the outlining of the jacket and a few touch ups on the face. You could keep going and going trying to make it more exact. This seemed to scan a little darker than it looks on paper. The original I worked from was downloaded from somewhere, then printed, and I have scanned it back in, so you can compare mine to what I was working from. The colors look closer to me on paper than here. I can see that in painting, I covered my drawing lines and mangled the man's right shoulder a bit. The original is on top.
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