Christmas Time Birthday

          Christmas Time Birthday was done on the day after one of my grandson's had his 16th birthday. The only indication it is close to Christmas is the Poinsettia on the table (and the date in the corner).  Light coming through the sun room and across the floor produced some interesting reflections. It took some time to get the original sketch done which I you can see on the "Thumbnails" page of this blog. It often takes a week or so for a sketch like this to percolate before attempting to finish the job. Then it takes another week off and on to do the final drawing. So it sits on the easel waiting most of the week while it gets evaluated from time to time with a few more scribbles added here & there and (perish the thought) some subtracting as well with the eraser!
          This image was shot with Aperture Priority setting on the Samsung, which resulted in the specific settings which you see here, and a photo with pretty good contrast using the normal light in the "studio" (which I might add makes pretty poor light for photography). These digital reproductions of full sized drawings are certainly not reproduction quality so I do not worry much about using Gimp to tweak them enough to look a little more like the original. This has been cropped of course. Also the perspective corrected some, the detail clarified and the tone returned to closer to the original drawing as best I can.