Bookend's Sketchbook

[Bookend]

Xenzo: Thanks dude, really appreciate it, and totally agree.  Just gotta keep it at a slow burn and not get too ahead of myself.

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I'm really happy with my progress today.  Feel like I'm finally catching up with my old self.

So I did this portrait.  It's skewed, the face is too long, the nose is too long, I see it all.  But...  It's a massive improvement.  I was really stuck on those glasses in the beginning, and was gonna give up.  I ended up going out to do a few errands--  Came back and did this.  So, awesome. I really feel like I'm getting the geometric shapes.

Here's the reference:

http://www.quickposes.com/assets/poses/e...b7c3be.jpg

And then, of course, there's my version: