Love that yellow tone. Looks just like the colour on my front room walls 
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Thanks Bill, Andrew, Tim.
Photos are incredibly unforgiving, it's true, Bill. I feel I'm doing a public service showing this level of detail - I can't be the only person discouraged by the flaws that photos reveal, which are often not really visible in the flesh. I use a big illuminated 2.5x magnifier with a 6x inset, but still miss plenty of stuff until I take a pic and zoom right in.
And often, flaws can be eliminated simply by expending more time, rather than needing a level of skill not available to many of us.
For example, I could spend (even) more time blending the yellowy-orangey-brown of her hat for a smoother finish (I've already spent a lot of time on it), but do I want to? Do I 'need' to?
We are all constantly making judgements like that - is what I've done so far good enough? Photos can really undermine that process.
My approach is to say to myself "Have I got better at this - is this an improvement on what I've done before?"
If the answer's yes, then I might keep going, but I'm content to accept that improving is all I can wish for, as perfection is pretty much unattainable, so for this figure I'm happy to have got a little bit better.
The upside of perfection being unattainable is that we will always have room for improvement - our skills refine, we get better at modelmaking, and that keeps us interested. And that process of improvement, theoretically, need never stop.Comment
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To emphasise the point, here's her hat with the fur done. Could I keep going? Of course I could! Do I want or need to - no, I don't think so.
That second picture shows the least attractive angle of this model. Her face is a caricature that works brilliantly from the front, but in profile she looks rather too cartoonish.
And when the photos get me down, I include my thumb as a reminder that no-one else (apart from the sympathetic viewers in this forum) will see the tiny flaws!
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Wow superbComment
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