From some articles I learned that people subconsciously analyse the distance and shapes of the eyes, nose and lips. Some people are better at reading these features than others, which makes them better at recognising people. There is a disability called Prosopagnosia, also known as Face Blindness which makes a person unable to remember faces.
It took me a few days of sketching from digital images before I found out what it was that made Jonathan's face different from others. I started with rough sketching and sometimes even tracing, but it was the critical examination that lead me forward. Every time a sketch didn't work out, I challenged myself to look at why and what I needed to do different. I remember a quote from -originally from Rita Mae Brown but made popular by -Einstein:
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results"
Below are some of the sketches as well as a final drawing:
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