Robert Downey Junior

My second and final portrait of the day.  It’s another in the Avengers collection and it’s Robert Downey Junior who played Iron Man.

As Iron Man, he deserved to be drawn in reds and yellows.  I deviated a bit from this with orange and with the magenta coloured Tonbow marker that I got for free a while back.  It looked OK in that colour scheme at the beginning, with the magenta playing the role of black and maybe I should have stopped earlier but I went for more blacks and greys in an attempt to get a better likeness.  The facial hair wasn’t standing out enough to get anything like a likeness so needed to be blackened out, although there’s still a bit of magenta there in places.  At the end I put yellow over the top of all the white highlights as there was nowhere near enough yellow in the portrait compared to his Iron Man armour.

The final portrait is the worst of the three in the collection so far in terms of likeness.  There’s also no Tony Stark personality coming through.  The best thing about this one is how the yellow highlights make RDJ look almost metallic.  But this still feels, if anything, more like Drax, the Bond villain in Moonraker.

He’s not quite right, so isn’t going up for sale as an individual work but will definitely end up as part of an Avengers collection if I ever complete one.