A portrait birthday gift for my brother

Some artists draw using the grid method. Thus they can perfectly copy a certain picture. 

For me I like to do it in freehand but still use the guidelines for anatomy. 

See the strong anime cartoony influence. It never goes away.

After that I then put in a collage app to compare the difference. 🤭 

Looks kinda realistic now.

I had fun shading the skin. But I need a reallllllyy fine brush to do the details right.

 Running low now with white acrylic paint.

A lil lighting tweak at an editting app did the job.

Sweet dreams my lil one (acrylics on canvas)

I was planning to only do background paintings as that is not my strong point. As I looked at my portfolio it was all anime style and realistic portraits. 

My concept or plan was to do only dream catchers in random size and design. 

I wanted to add quotes but was stuck with words Sweet dreams.

But then it looked like a book cover title. 

The Illustrator in me kicked in.

Thus made me search a silhouette of a sleeping child. I found none with my desired angle. So I browse through my gallery and found a sleeping picture of my daughter. (Who knew it would come in handy?!) 

And so it made me do this. 

Yeah I also need to work on my calligraphy skills. Hehe