Tuesday Figures

This little two-hour figure felt like sweet freedom last night after laboring over that long pose for the 30th hour. Anyway, I know my line quality isn't great. But I'm getting a lot better about not needing to pull over a zillion measurements grid-style and be really meticulous about the whole sight-size thing... which I think means my natural eye for proportions is getting better. That's a good thing. And I spent longer than usual trying to hone in on that portrait, since it seems to be such a weak spot for me lately.

Here's my long pose. The portrait is getting... closer. I think. At least the eye, cheekbone, and ear feel pretty good to me. The nose/mouth still need some work. And I'm trying to work on making my mass areas look flatter (which is sort of meticulous and involves a lot of light scraping across the paper to somewhat disguise the graininess of the paper + charcoal on top of it). This in an attempt to make way for more specific and subtle value transitions where the shadows meet the light.