3-hour portrait

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I wish I had taken a couple progress shots of this one, because I'm happier with how it started out than with how it ended. The drawing was going fairly well until I started trying to lay in more value (surprise! I'm starting to notice a pattern here ;). It's just in that stage where you have to push and pull between shape and value impression for a while. This was just a one-night pose, so I won't have a chance to bring it to a more resolved place, but that's alright. This lady's bone structure was killer.

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