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[Linda Brandon]

Hi Ngaire,

If she's a good friend of yours, maybe she will sit for a couple of hours for you, maybe playing the guitar as you sketch or paint her?

I often ask friends to sit for me and I give them a photo of the drawing and take them out to lunch as well. If I work fast then I don't feel as guilty about not paying them.

[Ngaire Winwood]

Thanks Linda for your suggestions. Since moving here only at the beginning of this year, I am only establishing a friendship with her to date. I hope to ask her soon to sit for me, but I don't think she has the spare time.

I often wonder when I do ask her to sit for me, would she expect that I actually make the drawings realistic. I am still a student of realism and I have not accomplished this feat yet.

[Linda Brandon]

Originally Posted by Ngaire Winwood

I often wonder when I do ask her to sit for me, would she expect that I actually make the drawings realistic. I am still a student of realism and I have not accomplished this feat yet.

Ngaire, remember, she isn't paying you and you don't have to meet any standard whatsoever. Take all the pressure off yourself! You don't have to satisfy her. That's the beauty of not always having to do commissions.

The problem with drawing your friends is that there is some pressure to flatter them, but I have this problem with self-portraits as well.