Pippy's Portrait

This was going to be a contest entry for a Pin-Up contest, but in the end I decided against entering it, but still wanted to share it as it's a pretty nice portrait.

Doing portrait work, especially with young characters presents a very different kind of challenge, as you have to think much more carefully about posing, clothing, camera angles etc, it's quite a meticulous process to avoid selling entirely the wrong narrative or intent, but in truth that same headache is actually part of what I love about working with younger characters in scenes.

I took inspiration from the old magazine adverts from the 50's and 60's, I wanted something fairly simple but elegant that also tied in with Pippy's general photography obsessed nature but while also being slightly sublime in appearance too.