I Draw Rachel, That Is All

Here is a portrait of a childhood friend I've been working on. It is heavily influenced by Alphonse Mucha and Ikenaga Yasunari and their application of a classically fine art sensibility to commercial graphic art. I particularly love both artists' depiction of women: they are always rendered in the most exacting way but are still almost generic-looking and their identities are vague.

And here is a video I created of the process of working on this piece: