Face of Honor

Not a painting of the day, but, a cover piece to a upcoming special edition of stories about Honor Harrington, by David Weber for Subterranean Press due out later in the year. I got on a portrait kick again-to digress I did portraits back 30 years ago in High School, and made money drawing pretty girls and families around Christmas time. Hey it was better than what most High Schoolers were doing which was waiting on tables. My recent portrait cover for Teddy Roosevelt for the same publisher re-awakened my muse to do these. Honor is, in this story, in her teens. She has eyes that are slightly Asian, a feature a borrowed from a dear friend of mine for the last 28 years. She also is part other ethnicities as well, so I dialed all that into the final image. Because it was more about Honor than, say, action, things blowing up(which the covers for his mass market books do quite well) I wanted to tone it down and just do a comtemplative portrait, in some kind of space gear. Anyway, I did the painting 14x18 inches and in oils. Alot of fun. I need to do more portraits. When I exhibited my Roosevelt piece at the World Fantasy Con, alot of people were shocked at me going into portraits as in "You do THIS too?" Sometimes, you have to think outta the box. It was also a nice break to do this from the dinosaur book.