Blackthornone
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Such a travesty! The very thought of an artist using artistic license!
Surely a sign of the Apocalypse!
What you seem to be forgetting is that this is a portrait, and because it is, while you can make some changes to it, you need to represent the personality. If you don't represent the personality well enough, then it isn't a portrait of that particular person anymore. I have drawn a lot of portraits of women, which is basically how I developed my art skill. I did this because faces are the most difficult thing to draw well, and because I like women.
You can make SOME changes to a portrait to make it more flattering, like the nose, the jawline or the chin, for example, but you can't change the eyes at all, and you can change the mouth very little, or it won't look like the person. I can tell you that the more a picture looks like the person you draw, the more impressed they are with it.
The mouth has been changed too much on this print, so that the face looks like a 14 year old, rather than an early to mid twenties woman.
Basically, the face now looks too generic and too young.
However, it looks like it could be her daughter. It has taken the character out of it.
