09-14-2014, 12:47 PM
Welcome to CD! Glad to see you're doing hand studies - keep doing them! They can be from your own hands, from photo of other people's hands, or hands of sculptures. Are you planning on having a background for the red-hair portrait? If yes, I would suggest think about what kind of background, and just drop in an approximate color, even just a solid color, of the kind of background you're thinking of. It helps with shading your portrait.