This week I was practicing sketches of heads using a simplified form of the Loomis method. At first I was pretty unimpressed with my efforts, so I went and collected some reference pictures. That gave better results, particularly my little sketch of Adam Driver. It was good enough that I decided to elaborate it into a painting.
This is mostly a charcoal portrait over a watercolor backdrop. I continue to really enjoy the use of charcoals, something I never would have said about the physical implements. There’s something enormously satisfying about scrubbing in details with them.
