5. Barbara Hale as Della Street

So this definitely isn't quite recognizable as Della. I made her mouth too small, and I really struggled with making her face appear round instead of angular. Oh, and I had to erase the right eye, and it smudged and wouldn't erase completely. :-(

Other than that, I'm actually pretty happy with this. I mean, she definitely looks like somebody from the '50s, and I managed to use a bit more shading than I have recently. So far, when I'm drawing from something in black and white, it's definitely been easier to do shading than when drawing from something in color.

I also switched from using a 4-by-4 grid to a 3-by-3 (4.5" square instead of 5" square, since the math works out better). It was a step I'd been looking forward to, and although I think the larger squares contributed to my problems on Della's mouth, it was otherwise a pretty smooth transition.