This is a commission I've made for a good friend of mine; Cecilia, also known as *dragonC

She has always been amazed by my portraits, so suddenly some time ago she asked me if I did commissions and if I could draw a portrait of her, which she wanted to pay for. I've never made a commission before, so I thought it would be awesome to take up that challenge

She gave me a reference photo, which was only 352 x 511 pixels (!!!)
It would be easier to draw if I made it in the size of A5, but I don't want to make such a small portrait, since I wont have a change to make the all details visible. So I took up the challenge making a portrait in the size of A4, which means that I had to enlarge the photo to that size. That made it look grainy, but out from my own creativity I was able to draw all the details clear and sharp, like if I used a high resolution photo reference

With that in mind, I'm quite proud of this portrait, since I had no idea that I could make such a portrait from out such a small photo

To make something more than just a simple portrait, I chose to personalize the portrait in a way so it adds more to the expression of who she is and the kind of elements which describes her best.

Since she likes creating her own tattoo-designs, I therefore chose to re-create some of her tattoos which she's most proud of.

I've chosen to make the rabbit tattoo because it, in her own words, tells about who she is. "Creative, simple, calm and strong-willed".

Since she adores dragons, have made many tattoo-designs of dragons and has used "dragon" in her own dA-name, I chose to somehow include a dragon in the portrait
For the dragon I got the inspiration from her own featured deviation It doesn't look like the one she made, but that's the idea ^^ I created my version of it as you can see.

When we met in the afternoon of Friday the 30th of May, I brought the portrait along with me and gave it to her. She was so amazed and extremely happy for it She was left absolutely speechless ^^
So I hope you'll like it as well

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As references I used the following deviations:
- Cecilia [link]
- The dragon [link]
- The rabbit-tattoo [link]
- Tattoo in the top [link]
- Tattoo to the left [link]
All deviations were made by *dragonC

Materials used:
- Calligraph pens (Black, 1.0, & 2.0)
- Crayons (orange, red and yellow)
- Graphite pencils (4H, HB, 3B & 7B)
- Overhead projection marker (Red, F)
- Pencil (0.5)

Time spend:
- Ca. 20 hours