Three sessions into the third long figure session with my local group. Taking this one slower.
Starting to build up the rough, general tone layer. Once this is all done, I’ll probably rub it down a bit and re-state the major forms, also working with a white or yellow for the lighter sections. One challenge here is that she’s actually against a much darker backdrop, so the shadows of her face are almost getting lost in the shadows of the background, but unless I render the background here (which I wasn’t planning to do), they’re going to be sharper since the value contrast is more. This means I’ll need to put in more definition than I can readily see. We’ll see if there are any consequences to that.
This session is costing me quite a bit more in modeling fees because we’re down to just two artists, sharing 3-hour session costs. Hopefully these things will start to sell one day so I can regard this time as an investment. Still, though, even if they don’t there’s really no other way to learn. School costs, books and materials cost, and models cost. Better to spend money on good materials and good models.