This is The Weeping Russian Girl by Pietro Rotari. Well she turned out more "Roman" than "Russian". I had a hard time griding the picture so her face turned out longer than it should have been. In art class we're given xerox's of paintings that a lot of times are already grided out which makes it hard to measure the picture out yourself. I'm really happy with how her hair piece turned out. It has the right shading and is pretty realistic.
Griding - Majority of artists do not just start to draw free-hand, they do something called griding. When you grid you basically create squares over the whole picture (or a grid) and draw what is within the squares. This way you can take a large picture and make it small or vice versa.
I have one more drawing, "The Prodigal Son" and then I'm on to painting.
For those that didn't catch it, the Christmas card I sent out was my drawing.
