Had a go tracing over with the fountain pen.
Was a nightmare for blotting, spoilt some of the line work.
I'm not too fond of how it's turned out. The tongues too thick, maybe take her forehead in a bit, the pattern ain't great, his eye should be rounder, her hand needs correcting and theres a line in his leg I don't want. Needs some jewellery on as well. Not sure about her hair there should be less but bigger scales.
I prefer the original smaller one as it's more carefree. Now that I've compromised the style to match the environment, it's looking more modern. Might drop the perspective and do a one point perspective drawing to keep it looking older. Four weeks left. Like I'm thinking I'm gonna have to go over the original perspective drawing in pen first so that I can see it when I trace it so it's gonna lose some accuracy anyway. Unless I see if the scanner will pick it up, that'll save me having to draw over it at least. Could do this piece on A4 and enlarge it to A3.
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