My wife's father.

kostas80

A good person, very simple but with a lot of love for his family. He want the portrait from a photo with bad quality and I try to make my best to thank him. (Sorry guys my English no so good) .

Richard_P

Very nice work!

I might be able to improve the original photo if you want me to take a look?

tassieguy

You did a great job with this, @kostas80. 

GTO

Is that the painting or the photo?
is that your signature on his left cuff?

anwesha

very good job! love how just minimal work on the face conveyed so much!

kostas80

@Richard_P of course, thank you! 

kostas80

kostas80

@tassieguy @anwesha Thank you! 

kostas80

@GTO this is my work with graphite pencils. Yes this is my signature. Thank you! 

GTO

Wow.  What size is the finished drawing?

kostas80

@GTO is 15-20cm. Difficult. I told him to take a good new photo from my phone but he want this old foto, probably because he is younger 😄 

Richard_P

This is the best I could do. Maybe it helps a little..

kostas80

@Richard_P much better! Can I make myself the photo better like this? 

Richard_P

I have bought GigaPixel AI from Topaz Studios which can do enlargements like this. Results can vary but when it works it gets exceptional results. Without the software you can't really get this level of improvement in my opinion.