A SKETCH FROM A NEW PHOTO

Chioma wearing headphones. Dara Bolaji, 2019. Pencil on paper, 210 x 297 mm | Dara Bolaji, 2019. Digital photograph.

This is another sketch from a photo that I had purposely taken for this project of practicing portraits. Although I am deliberately taking this photo, and the subject is also aware they are having a photo taken of them, I still wanted it to feel somewhat candid. I did not want it to look too staged and posey. So I had my subject looking away from the camera and moving and being as they naturally would without focusing on the camera.