Figure drawing

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Tuesday's figure. Beautiful model. Drawing the figure with full lighting from the front is one of the trickier lighting configurations (in my opinion), which is probably why I keep insisting on doing it. Keep tackling the hard stuff and everything else will get easier, right? in theory...

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