Head Practice

This one was about 20-30 minutes.  I spent more time just playing with value and finding a general shape I liked.  This one has some dirty values and I think I could have a much stronger indication of light and shadow.  The feeling of just painting with value was better then starting with construction and then laying in value.  However, the structure started to shift as I massaged values around to make it work.  The nose especially 

Head Practice

Practicing head compositions with light.  What i'm finding it that I tend to construct fine.  When I move toward values, I get messed up and the piece stiffens completely.  Next time i'll just go in and paint with value and not construction

Practice more...

Practice more with values.  This time I used 1 layer for line and the next layer for shape.  I practiced modeling with line for quite some time on this to "feel" the form

More practice

This one took about 1 hour because I had to analyze a face and the shapes I was seeing.  I wanted to keep it as close to 3-4 values as possible and continue to practice in photoshop.  That was my primary goal.  My secondary goal which I did not feel I achieved was crafting a good design.  I feel like it reads, but there is no direction or focal point.  

Fuck design is hard.  REALLY hard!

Mileage

Photoshop and a tablet are difficult to get used to.  By the looks of these, it will be a while for sure.  Nothing beats a pencil and paper.  Nothing.

Had 15 minutes

Wanted to practice a quick imagination sketch and continue using photoshop.  I'm finding that using all sorts of crazy brushes is nonsense.  So I just use the hard round brush.  Makes life simpler.

Mileage...

No matter how bad... mileage.  

This was based on a color palette I saw in the film Blackhawk Down.  I liked it and decided to do it as practice