I have no reference photos of Sonja, either from childhood or as an adult, so this is only based on my own childhood memory of Sonja, and is intended to represent what she projected back then, according to my limited childhood memories. Again, it’s a work in progress, and will be edited further. Ironically, this was done in graphite on tissue paper! Nothing else! I started this one this way accidentally, just doodling and it developed into a study of sorts, so I just kept going with it, exploring expressions that were common with Sonja back then. She wore glasses, too, but I haven’t put them on her here…I need to check and find out if she was wearing glasses this young (around her teens). I will probably make some more changes to her eyes, in particular, as well as her cheekbones, as she had, as many of us, have the heavy upper eyelids of the Pendergraph family, and we have them from childhood. Sonja was also a bit chubby, and face studies during adolescence would be more effective if I could see some photos of her at this age. She just died at 52, and remembering through my teenage memories leaves considerable gaps in details. The blogpost I previously posted I had accidentally hit “auto contrast” on my scanning program, and it took the shading away from what I had in the sketch. I just redid it and this is how the drawing actually looks in its present state without any photo editing.
Pretty Real Behind the Veil 