Day three hundred and sixty-three: Although it doesn’t look much like him at all, this sketch is based on a photo of my Grandfather when he was in the Coast Guard around the time of WW2. My brother sent me some old family earlier this week, which reminded me of some others I had scanned a couple of years ago, of which the photograph of my grandfather is one. I’ve looked at it as a possible sketching subject a couple of other times this year, but I’ve always avoided it because I don’t really do portraits very well. Plus the scanned black and white photo is a little fuzzy. Nevertheless, I figured it was worth an attempt, and in the end it was a great way to remember my grandfather and study what he looked like when he was a young man.
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