Either they want the portrait to look very realistic, capturing reality as accurately as possible or they would want the portrait to be a slightly better-looking version of themselves. If I’m to leave the customers to choose then I’ll probably end up with both types of requests and that meant that I had to be comfortable in delivering both types as well.
“I think a man can be beautiful. It’s not strange. You were very pretty too as a kid…” I said before smiling brightly at him.
The blond boy I saw in the photo looked like a little angel. I didn’t know what his character was like back then just from a photo, but I couldn’t say that his character right now matches his face.
“I got teased for looking like a girl a lot when I was younger. Although Harvey was always the one with longer hair, I was the one who was teased…” Hayden said calmly as he seemed to recall some old memories.
“Sounds tough…” I comment with a smile.
