Noses have always been my biggest weakness when doing portraits over the years, and I never truly took the time to address it, so I decided to take time and do some isolated practice on these. Had some trouble. Nothing iterative practice couldn't fix on the first few. Trickiest ones were the 1st-4th drawings in the first image. As well as the 6th. Constructing a nose from a purely frontal position has always been challenging as well as other upward angles, especially in flat lighting. I began finding some success in the 5th drawing onward, if I spent a bit longer on the initial drawing, making sure to shorthand the different changes in angles of the forms very carefully before i began laying on some tone. I noticed at times that because I put myself on a timer of about 5mins, I would make panic marks to try to capture the subject quicker, more-so than I would make thoughtful ones. On the second page I did a few iterative drawings after noticing this trend, and I got a successful result, even though I went over time. The final 3, I went over time significantly because I was really not happy with the results I got in the 5min time. So I kept going because I felt 5mins was too short a time to learn how to sculpt these noses to a satisfactory result. I ended up taking 10mins+ longer in the last 3. I can't really see many flaws with the last 2, I would really appreciate a more experienced eye to help discern something I might've missed I do have some videos to show my process. Going forward, if I'm doing practice digitally, I do plan on recording what I do, partly because I find in previous explorations I would achieve a certain result by accident, and I don't remember how I did it. So to capture those moments, I'm live streaming to archive my processes on Youtube DVR. Here are the live recordings I made of my practice so far as well as a link to the reference pin I was using: 1st seven drawings: https://www.youtube.com/live/X-pYbJL3TqA

I need help with this perspective. PLEASE @Chris Legaspi How do you construct the body from this angle to be anatomically accurate relative to the perspective?

I am going to cancel my Adobe sub. I am in the process of cutting ALL of my unnecessary business expensive and I honestly don't really use Photoshop that much. Not $20/mo worth. Besides Photoshop, what photo/digital paint app do you use or recommend? I heard Affinity is free now. I like that price!😎 I purchased Procreate a while ago, but it does have photo editing limitations. What do you think?

repaint of yesterday’s plein-air. A friend pointed out it had some contrast issues and i agreed. So here’s a repaint to address those problems. Regrettably i didn’t allow for enough space to include the car which would’ve helped with depth

First painting after recovering from a post Lightbox Expo flu to start the month. Getting back on the wagon again