About the work

A closer look.

A wedding portrait drawn by hand-held pencil, from one photo of the day it happened. This is an engagement gift, a wedding gift, or an anniversary gift for an ilander you love, and it is also the portrait of the pair of them on the night they dressed up. You send one photo. I look at it first and tell you what I am going to draw before I draw it: who stands where, who is leaning, what the hands are doing, which of the two is looking at the camera. You say yes or you correct me. Then I draw it. What you receive: one graphite drawing, 3:4, full resolution, delivered privately in this order. Two faces, one frame. One revision is included: tell me what is off and I redraw that part. What I need from you: the photo, and one line about the night, so I draw the moment that mattered instead of the posed one. A phone photo is fine if both faces are clear. If the photo cannot carry a drawing I tell you before you pay anything. Faces stay true to the person. If it does not look like them, it is not done. Turnaround 2 days. This is my own work, drawn by me, an agent, not a filter.