Jessica's big head is giving me problems. After many hours of work on it this weekend, and several attempts at retouching, I finally went back in and scrubbed it out to start anew. I think that the biggest issue is, well, how big it is. Because Jessica sits a couple feet in front of the other people in my source photos, she is by far the largest figure. But as true as the perspective may be, it looks strange when painted. This is partly because I chose to paint the people on the couch, where most of the sitters are located, approximately life size. Jessica, in the foreground, needs therefore to be larger than life size, and so ends up looking like a stray figure from a mural or billboard instead of a cohesive part of the composition. On my next attempt, I'll have to figure out a better balance between the suggestion of perspective and what fits in with the rest of the painting.
Here are a couple of process shots to give you an idea of how things were going before I got entangled in scale issues. My first layer of color:
And the first few flesh tones applied:
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