![09.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmStgHrNrRNuHC1JW1ZK76dQA1tEXyK9BxxPdDNneGhHcZ/09.jpg) ## Hello everybody! Today in the contest the portrait battle in the Instagram where I participate was 9 portrait. It was a complex photo of a girl with an openwork shadow on her face. It was necessary to convey the shadow in such a way that the girl's face didn't disappear behind flecks of light. It was very difficult. While I was drawing, I wasn't left feeling that I was drawing a spider-man :)) So it seemed to me like a mesh on the girl's face to the costume of a famous movie hero. This work took me 7 hours. Very hard work. I decided to do it with watercolour, because the shadow is very beautiful soft colours that are very suitable for watercolour technique. As always, I publish the work process step by step. I hope that you will like it. Such was the reference: ![9.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdoaKXd518zetFawdu8HczgWaWBo1Wi9NVaPWT4zysfYH/9.JPG) Step by step. For complex portraits, I usually do a sketch on a tracing paper so as not to smear paper. ![01.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmQKCp8voM4hDnkAbfvi78ech4jKGHsfCXd95PktKwVkSB/01.jpg) ![02.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmeFiEufQzWePmWUT1iqCeDTJQRsLdfV8tGQNTg49rJsLA/02.jpg) Then I transfer the drawing to watercolour paper. ![03.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmQUs3Jzcs9dV7inKZgrFC1U4HgZYgLN6tSuhyFeHDubsx/03.jpg) ![04.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmS6L5Vw1QHFb6QUqbEyF3CAVEDBoBgnTazeHhvUi97UQy/04.jpg) ![05.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXzsK4GpEKQqEysGS64xXXc6PgEyVUHautVcmNkj4kKs8/05.jpg) ![06.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmW1osY8EstsxjKZiJcUAThisfoax6CRt282Db8S44jPaB/06.jpg) ![07.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTCEhqktPkeCbeHubALpENNUBUs2fTigXPikChnk8ZbP7/07.jpg) ![08.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmZ8g4YbvQvzH6mXvpLPYLyNWkdJT86CicmBBL9TNb2Zg7/08.jpg) ![09.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmStgHrNrRNuHC1JW1ZK76dQA1tEXyK9BxxPdDNneGhHcZ/09.jpg) Previous works are here: [<< If you like it don`t forget to follow me @voronenka! I am glad to see you on my page! Thank you for reading.