Pretty Sara

Sara Heinrichs. I wish i lived in San Luis Obispo, just to meet her.
I had not done anything decent in days, and was itching to draw someone's portrait -- the kind that takes four hours, and several cups of orange juice mixed with ginger ale. :-)
2B "fat" graphite on Canson.

Comments

[Lexy]

This is fantastic!

That's it. Once I've finished this latest chunk of work, I've got to get to my neglected sketchbooks!!

[martín]

It's amazing how you get the expressions in portraits. You know I DO love your works. Hugs.

[José Luis]

Je suis un fan inconditionnel de ton travail....de tout ton travail. Quesqu´on peut dire d´autre quand on est un fan inconditionnel. On n´arrive rien a dire parce qu´on a toujours le souffle coupé :)

Sorry my english is very very bad....et je sais que tu parle français :)

Thank you, merci

Salut

[Edgar]

my gosh she is pretty!!!! Love her mouth! could you hook me up with her! ha ha ha!!

[Felicity]

Amazing portrait, this must be one of your best! Love the way her hair disappears into the background - oh and the skin texture and the shadows across her forehead etc., etc.! Only a pretty face could afford to make this face! ;)

[Stephen Gardner]

I know I've said this before, but I'll say it again anyway, you are a born illustrator. I know how difficult it is the do a job like that, you really are amazing.

[Marva]

This is fantastic!

[wagonized]

Lexy, Martin: thank you!
José Louis, ravie de lire un commentaire en français -- ils sont rares!
Edgar, you may not believe it, but here's the same Sara, in different shots: http://www.flickr.com/photos/awfulsara/sets/185469/
Felicity, thank you for your comment.
Stephen, now i am blushing.
Marva, thank you!

[V]

Ha! This is great! And who of us can say we haven't made THAT face before, huh?
Love your stuff!
~ hugs from Canada :)

[suzanne buchanan]

Love it! Love it! Such a great expression...captured with such precision!

[Joan Y]

I keep coming back to this picture. So much character you convey! I checked out Sara's portfolio and it kicks *ss!

[Pippa]

Haha! What a brilliant facial expression! And an amazing drawing. 4 hours huh? That's way faster than me!

[Sara Heinrichs]

O my good lord.

How I missed this I'll never know, but it is totally terrifying and awesome. Oh how I want it. I am the lovely specimen pictured above, my crowning glory. And a tidbit bout me you might NOT have known is that I was born in France, St. Jean de Gonville (well, Ambilly, actually, but my family lived in St. Jean, a tiny town at the base of the Jura). Went back as a teenager to be an exchange student, living in Lyon for a year in 1995 when you were relocating to the US. What delicious synchronicity.

But seriously... would you part with this? Specially if I traded you some bee-oo-ti-ful photographs of your choosing? Give me a shout!

Sara

[wagonized]

Sara! It's so good to hear from you. I cannot believe you were born in France. I looked up Saint Jean de Gonville on a map and found that it is not only close to Oyonnax (where my sister was born) but no more than a couple of hours away from my hometown, a stone's throw away from Switzerland!
Let me try to contact you via your website -- or Flickr mail :-D

With much admiration
France