Jessica

[Mike McCarty]

Julianne,

Beautiful subject. By my calculations her head will be at least nine inches. Although this would not be completely out of the question for such a beautiful subject, depending on your objective, it could be bumping on a limit. As I formulate the concensus, a slightly less than life size is optimum which works out somewhere around seven to seven and a half inches.

You're post has a ratio, height to width, of .66% while the 24x20 canvas works out to an .83% ratio. So you will be adding another twenty five percent to the width of what we see in your post. From the looks of things this may not be a bad thing.

I just bring these things up for reference and to point out that, per usual, your placement of the subject on the canvas will be important.

This looks like a studio made photo with multiple lights coming from our top left and a substantial fill from our lower right. You may have to work a little harder to create form because her facial and chest features have become quite subtle.

Cheers