Happy New Year everyone! Like the title says, I wanted to try to do a somewhat realistic painting of Tanya. It’s based on one of the expressions I did a couple years back which I’ve included here as well. I’ve been enjoying taking things a little slower during the winter and I wanted to spend some more time on this portrait. But also, because it’s realistic, I think I had less room for “stylization/exaggeration”, so there were definitely a lot of things I needed to tweak to make it look a bit more grounded in reality! I'll be posting the process video soon so you can see the struggle XD