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Some more traditional practice with acrylics.

Here's the ref.:



Here's the line drawing:



I added a wash to seal in the line drawing and provide a tonal ground to work on but I made it too dark.  I used some matt medium which is transparent but then I added too much black to the mixture and obscured some of the linework which caused me some problems to fix later on:



If anyone has any tips on using translucent mediums then I would very much appreciate it - thanks!