Either they want the portrait to look very realistic, capturing reality as accurately as possible or they would want the portrait to be a slightly better-looking version of themselves. If I’m to leave the customers to choose then I’ll probably end up with both types of requests and that meant that I had to be comfortable in delivering both types as well.

"I think a man can be beautiful. It’s not strange. You were very pretty too as a kid…" I said before smiling brightly at him.

The blond boy I saw in the photo looked like a little angel. I didn’t know what his character was like back then...