This one was a lot of work. I had the eyes out of place and they really didn't work with the rest of the facial features. One of the best aspects about doing a portrait a day for 30 days is that you really get a feel for how all the elements of a human face come together. It gave me increased understanding of how fascinating all the muscles and bones truly are. All the facial elements need to be working together if the drawing is going to be convincing.
The eye on the left (her right) is in a pretty good place right now but you can see that the paper there is badly overworked, nearly worn out from excessive erasures and start overs. At a certain point the sheet is too frayed up to draw on any more.
This sketch pad contains pretty good paper but not the best. It's doing a good job absorbing the pencil strokes, blending, heavy shading and occasional abuse does have limitations.
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