Hadorei's sketchbook

[Hadorei]

Results of today's museum drawing. This sculpture was much more challenging than I thought at first, mostly because it was extremely smooth and rounded, yet also a masculine face. Any angles were so subtle it was hard to see what exactly was going on to make it look masculine. For awhile my drawing made poor Hermes look like he was about 12 years old, I think I managed to get it to maybe 17!? I tried to analyze where I was going wrong but didn't quite get there. I think I made it worse with too much shading on the light side...next time I would stand farther away instead of looking up at it slightly.