I was following along with Jonathan Hardesty's Expressive Portrait Course on Schoolism for this portrait. I like his painterly approach.

I blocked the initial line drawing in with the grid method to achieve accuracy and then blocked in the shadow shapes as the next step.

Jonathan mentioned that the shadow shapes are a good place to start since you can begin by carving a likeness out of them. After that step, I began painting over top of the shadow layer to complete the portrait with some texture brushes.

I was going for a more painterly look this time since I want to get away from airbrush style rendering since that's typically how I would go about a render.

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Tried a different softer edge brush for some of these today. I think I like the other brush i was using better. Still experimenting and trying to stay loose

I also tried to rough in a quick idea for the perspective wall. I lost steam when I started thinking about having to construct this sketch correctly. Not feeling like attempting this at all today.

Here are my 5 heads from imagination.

Another sheet of head studies. I should be ready to move on to term 3 soon. I just have another sheet of these left to do, another portrait painting and the monster portrait from imagination that I want to tackle.

Here are some monster head sketches from imagination.

Made myself a diagram of the skull and face muscles while I was studying them.

Taking some time to study the different types of folds first before jumping into the term 3 assignments. I am referencing the Famous Artists Course and Aaron Blaise's costumed figure course for the different fold types.

Zig-Zag Fold studies

Spiral fold studies

Diaper Fold studies. 3 More types left to go. Glad I took the time to study all of these because I am starting to notice the different types now in clothing.

Drop Folds

Half-Lock Folds