i recently caught Rumbo Mercy's video on the 100 heads challenge, i was like, okay, i'm not doing too many physical sketches lately, and could use some retraining so i'm not so reliant on the horizontal flip tool. plus, i wanted to use a brush pen that i couldn't really get to work well for me before just to get some more practice in.
the idea is you do 10 portraits a day for 10 days.
"fuck it" i thought, "i'm not afraid of portraits" so i did 5-minute timed studies and was Immediately humbled by fucking, diffuse light.
i did do 10 of them, but decided to just do 8 per spread, tomorrow you'll see the other two and 6 more from that day's, and so on.