The creative and talented Minda Grace Ware suggested I draw this photo for my Valentine’s Day cards (after I posted a similar image).

I messed with hue/saturation and contrast/brightness for multiple layers over the photo in order to find the shapes below.  I used the coloring of the original image, though, and then altered that again with more adjustments to h/s c/b.  I discuss a bit more of the process below.

Here’s the final 20″x30″:

The following is the drawing without the layers of adjustments on top and without the black in the back. I filled the different layers of the line drawing in with white so I could get a sense of the positive and negative spaces.

Here are the line drawings with the layers intersecting: And Minda’s photo: