drifter93's sketchbook

[Fedodika]

you have a nice reference, just start doing your best to make small observations and improve the image more and more to make it more and more like the reference. The head for instance is more tilted to the left in the reference... try to locate all the shadow shapes, like how is done in quick sketch, draw the outline of the shadow shapes and indicate how their edges are looking. keep it in grayscale to not get distracted. This should take way longer than 45 minutes.. id reccomend spending like a week at least, as many hours a day as you can exert, on just this picture.

As feng zhu once said "take as looong as yoou neeed to get quality" so get your transform tool out, your eraser, and use every trick you can think of to make this sketch look like the reference. everyday ask yourself... are these arms the right size? are these legs the right size? are all the negative spaces identical to the reference? The sooner you can accurately copy the reference the better everything else you makes becomes. So take your time and just keep working on it. If you like this photo, do it, if you want a reference that holds your attention more, do that. pick one you wouldnt mind looking at for a week slugging long hours to make it accurate