Samira Ahmed

We’re into lockdown and, with grass roots football missing from the calendar, my Sundays are no longer messed up and I can participate again in Portrait Artist Of The Week.  This week’s subject is Samira Ahmed who I believe is a TV journalist.

When Samira turned up in a black top, I knew immediately that I would be sacrificing creases and curls to merge the black top into her black hair.  I think that worked.  I thought the Asian skin tone might be a problem but that seemed to go OK.  In reality, I use the same colours as I do for white Europeans as it’s the values that are more important than the colours themselves.  There’s a bit of a likeness there too, although I think the face shape isn’t quite right.  Maybe the face should be shorter, or maybe narrower at the top and wider at the bottom.

Let’s be honest.  This one’s a reject.