I can imagine this from grandad’s perspective. He’s got an established style and knows how he paints. His son begs him - “please Dad, with this portrait of our daughter can you just.. make it prettier? You know, make her nice looking.” Grandad doesn’t paint “nice looking”, he tries to tell his son but it falls on deaf ears since the son thinks since Dad can paint, he can paint anything. They offer him money. “Please just do this for my daughter”. Grandad accepts his fate. Spends months painting his granddaughter and forcing out his natural process of painting. He tries in vain to make her look as beautiful as she genuinely is and not like his other art. He’s trying to learn a new language with no help. It’s like his son asked him to give a speech in Spanish next week and he should already be prepared because he took a couple of years of Spanish 45 years ago. Poor granddad tried so hard to cheer up his granddaughter when he knew deep down his art would never be what his family wanted.
DarkFireRogue on October 6th, 2018 at 15:51 UTC »
Either 15 or 50. Nothing in between.
thebendavis on October 6th, 2018 at 17:28 UTC »
"It took me like three hours to finish the shading on your upper lip. It's probably the best drawing I've ever done."
-ND
whatamievendoing99 on October 6th, 2018 at 18:11 UTC »
I can imagine this from grandad’s perspective. He’s got an established style and knows how he paints. His son begs him - “please Dad, with this portrait of our daughter can you just.. make it prettier? You know, make her nice looking.” Grandad doesn’t paint “nice looking”, he tries to tell his son but it falls on deaf ears since the son thinks since Dad can paint, he can paint anything. They offer him money. “Please just do this for my daughter”. Grandad accepts his fate. Spends months painting his granddaughter and forcing out his natural process of painting. He tries in vain to make her look as beautiful as she genuinely is and not like his other art. He’s trying to learn a new language with no help. It’s like his son asked him to give a speech in Spanish next week and he should already be prepared because he took a couple of years of Spanish 45 years ago. Poor granddad tried so hard to cheer up his granddaughter when he knew deep down his art would never be what his family wanted.