Hsiao-ron Cheng Critical Study FMP

I chose to do a critical study on Hsiao-Ron Cheng because of their light and soft toned work in portrature. The portraits that she does look so delicate and beautiful it's unbelivable that such work can be produced. She portrays a veriety of people from black, asian and white to male and female. There is no discrimination or preferances and it shows that she is capable of widing her range of work unlike other artists who find it difficult to change familiar features in faces. I want to link her work to mine as with Pin Ups they are bright and colourful with a mild tease about them, However, I am looking at the classic beauty of these women so I'm looking for a classy, innocent kind of tease and I want to produce a more subtle and realistic tone to their faces that women actually have. I believe using Chengs tones in my work would really help me get that innocent look I'm hoping for. She does most of her work in Giclee print.
The piece I've chosen to recreate is of an Asian woman, I chose this piticular piece as I wanted to know if I was capable of producing a range of ethnicities in my portait work. I thought about how many pin ups are of white women and very little are of different races, rethinking my work to be more cultural will be something that I personally could feel proud of due to my mixed background and also other people to feel more ethnicities welcomed into the world of Pin Up. This piece was done as giclee print.
My actual piece I believe is a lot like the original, such as the features and the placement of them on the face. This is done in Gouache. I also worked hard to get similar tones and colours correctly for the skin and hair. It took me a while before I started in the skin as I wanted it to be perfect. For the hair I used a light grey for the base and then began to add thin lines with a detail brush. I used tracing paper to get the facial features right, by first drawing out the features free handed and then choosing a final outcome amd then placing them correctly on the face. I also used the detail brush to do the eyes mouth and nose. For the detail on the background and appear to be her clothing I used different shades of grey and green to get a 3D effect similar to in Chengs work. I believe I did this well. For the pink background I used a sponge to get an even colour and I believe this worked well too but I could have been a bit more gentle as the paper began to rub off. Overall I can see myself using something like this for in my work.