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Backgrounds are SUCH a mental block area, they just stump me. I have no expertise in figuring them out. This was a quick exercise in at least stepping the background away from the subject with overlays and colour.
All the subjects touched on in my new book 'Lockdown Sketchbook 2020'
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on the mbappe and osaka ones they read better at this stage rather than further on where i've indulged myself and splurged with colours
trying to make my portraits easier on the eye, like when you see the art your eye reads it quicker, i think the saturated pink shading is too bold and can work against this. so the red one is the same artwork with a different approach to colour, which i currently like more