Dolce: A Portrait of a Young Boy The Sketch Session Collecting Reference Material It is always a challenge to get great reference material for a portrait. With younger children it is also great fun. The subject of this portrait is an energetic, charming three-year-old boy. This portrait session started out with my subject in a collared shirt sitting on a proper chair with his tongue sticking out of his mouth. In the next group of photos he retracted his head into his shirt,