usually i do those portraits from photographs, but alot of it i do from multiple photos. I did a family portrait once, and they didn't like the face one of their kid's were making so i had to replace it with one from another photo. So it's just things like that, where I have to use my imagination and change things, that makes that portrait business fun. Recently i haven't done much pencil work - those portraits that you see are 1-3 years old.
so your a mormon too eh? I actually was convinsed that there were no other mormon pixel artists in this world. I guess i was wrong.
BTW - if you guys wanna send me a friend request, go for it. It'd be nice to have a few pixel artists in my friends lists. And thanks for the kind comments.