Nat's Sketchbook

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@Tygerson Yep, I do! If I were using pencil I'd treat it as somewhat of an undersketch. I don't often focus on specifically the face, but I know Loomis and Bridgman's constructions are meant to be good. For just generally good resources to draw from with varied face types, angles and expressions, Croquis Cafe (http://www.onairvideo.com/cc-photo-archi...raits.html) and http://humanae.tumblr.com/ are both helpful!

@Fedodika Yeah I'm so used to sketching with the intent to paint that I often forget about creating 'nice' looking lines - there's definitely a lot more I can do with it! Loomis and Vanderpoel are great recommendations to study (also gonna take a look at Watts and Sargent).

Just a quick drop here, got carried away with some personal work and missed my studying, oops.

Couple sketches from imagination:





Started rendering out an older piece for fun/anatomy practise.




Last but not least, the lute lady. Pretty sure she's all done now, although the piece feels empty, kinda simplistic to me. Learned a lot about rendering this kind of hair though, and hey lutes are fun. I can't decide between the warmer palette or the colour corrected version with more cool shadows.