Inital breakdown and analysis of Caroline Andrieu

I began by taking the image shown below for analysis.

 By breaking it down to its fundemental basic first steps (shown below), I was able to distinguish the illustration style used.  I began by firstly outlining the basic face shape of the illustration and by drawing in the guidelines, I was then able to incorporate the style of the eyes, nose and lips. 

Following that I then took a smaller study of the same illustration and pencilled in more detail, such as the hair and shadows, while still maintaining the guidelines from the initial study.  By doing this I discovered that this style of illustration follows the basic illustration sizing of the body being eigth times the length of the head.

Once I was familiar with the face shape, style and size, I thought I would take the colour from the original illustration and digitally add colour in the same style as the original, whilst trying to achieve the watercoloured effect.  I started with the larger collar and began by selecting the collar with the 'magic wand tool' and then created a new layer.  Upon this new layer, I began by selecting a medium shade of blue and by setting my brush shape to;

*Brush Tip Shape - 23

*Shape Dynamics - Size Jitter 20

                               Minimum Diameter 10

                               Angle Jitter 10

*Scattering - Scatter 130

*Select 'Wet Edges'

 These settings for the brush shape remained the same throughout.  Once the brush shape was changed to the above and a medium shade of blue selected, the collar was coloured in to the style of the illustration, for the darker and lighter areas different shades were chosen.  After each new blue colour was added the 'Smudge' tool was selected and used to blend the edges of the colour to give it the watercoloured effect.  The result is shown below;

Following this, the smaller collar was coloured in using the same technic as above.  however, because the original had a pattern to the blouse, I incorporated this pattern into the smaller collar by simply adding in more of a white colour.  The result is shown below;

This is how I carried out my initial analysis of Caroline Andrieu, my finished interpretation of her original illustration is shown below;