Here is my take on Philby, who I think I have known since about 1994.  He was here with us last week.  As always this is a digital painting not a photo manipulations.  In retrospect I think I should have pushed the exaggeration  a bit further.  I always start with lots of small thumbnails sketches just to experiment with the exaggerations.  These will rarely look like the subject till much later…if at all!  A few thumb nails of others in group last week.  I suppose during the winter I may take quite a few more of my thumbnails to a more finished state for practice.

Philby

Philby process