Little study I've been working on, still incomplete

Been painting this baroque-era statue this week. Idk if I’ll continue it but it’s often a lot of fun to do statues. Painting statues as references allows for a very pure focus on form and value, because things like skin tone don’t get in the way - it’s just the marble and the light.

That’s quite well played.

I feel attacked by fake ninjas.

That’s part of the human condition.

“There comes a time in every man’s life where he has to confront the fake ninjas in his life, lest his flowers wilt from their rotten piss.”

  • Lao Tzu

“Gross, but accurate.”

  • Chuang Tzu

Some more progress, finished the face pretty much

nice/wow

Thank you, this is one of the better ones I’ve ever worked on. I’ve practiced drawing faces hundreds of times by now and I STILL only feel like I “get lucky” when one turns out okay. Sometimes they just end up fucked up and I can’t explain why.

But I’ll take my Ws, even if they’re luck.