Ben Nissen's SKETCHBOOK

[Ben Nissen]

Nice painting! Cool to see the process. You do get kind of a ruan jia quality with the colors. I might have to steal that bust reference it looks really great to paint.

If I may, Just looking the process, the one flaw i see with it is that every stage kind of waffles a bit on the specifics, like you kind of go back and forth on where those shadows are, and in the end I think the form could be clearer on the jaw and cheekbone where it ends up less distinct than in the ref. A bigger color temp contrast in the shadow might look good, too. It's something Ruan Jia seems to do a fairly often, like a bluish light and reddish shadow. But looks cool!

Thanks Joseph! And yea, go for it with the reference, I figured other people could get use out of it, I'll try to make sure to post more reference with this in mind.

This was really helpful to know, and I didn't have to clearest focus on the process with this study, just kind of progressed, but that is good to know I should concentrate more on mapping my shadows early on and making sure to keep the structure of the forms as I paint. Really appreciate the specific comments, those I find to be the most useful when possible.