New heads on display :) I’m getting more comfortable in positioning heads so I think that I’m ready for next video. Here are heads #9 - #16.

I made another tonal study. I used this picture. This time I didn’t use brush pen, I used pencil and done some hatching.

I’m back with positioning the heads. Here are heads 003 - 008:

I did more studies/copying from Civardi’s ‘Drawing Light & Shade’. I’m not satisfied. These were meant to be ‘easy’. My spheres are far from good; there is no nice transition/gradation. The rest is ok in my humble opinion.  Another thing that I noticed is that my hatching also needs practice. So here is today’s practice:

I tried few portraits in my life and they weren’t good. I heard about Ahmed Aldoori’s #100HeadsChallenge and watch many people on YouTube who invested effort in doing it. Since I can’t do a decent portrait, yet alone do 100 heads in 10 days I decide to do it in my own way.  I will use Aldoori’s Pinterest board but my learning will follow Portrait Basics with Yong Chen lessons. My plan is to do every step (lesson) 100 times. For the first round I will combine lesson one and two.  Here are first two heads.

Another study .. based on this picture 

And after the sketch ...