A friend asked me to post a smiling selfie, I am not very photogenic and I don't enjoy taking pictures of myself or having someone take a picture of me. I have never done a self portrait so I did that instead. I will be finishing this piece using watercolor, pen and Ink. I like working out the detail before outlining with ink. I did a lot of erasing on this piece. Copying Alfons Maria Mucha's style is difficult but I love his style. I've been copying Mucha's drawings since I was a young teenager. He is one of my favorite artist of all time!

I used this portrait has my template. I am not good enough to make up one myself. Maybe next year I can draw this way from my minds eye. That's how I've learned to draw since I was a child, I copy artist I like.

This is one of the photo's I used, I took several pictures in basically the same pose and took the best angle of the nose, eyes, smile from each photograph. I gave 57 year old face a little face lift. I wish getting a facelift was this easy and cheap in real life!