Brian Cox Portrait WIP 3

Sorry for my recent absence! I've been busy lately. I haven't actually drawn anything since I last uploaded here. :-( So anyway, half an hours more speedpainting work on my Brian Cox portrait this lunchtime. Loving it so far! Really nice to slap lots of colours down roughly, can't wait to start refining now!

Brian Cox Digital Portrait WIP 2

This is after half an hour of slapping on colour in my lunchbreak. Here I am just laying down some colours and very rough shading. :-)

Brian Cox Digital Portrait WIP 1

So I have started a picture of the one and only Dr Brian Cox, the "rock star" physicist.

Here's my sketch - about an hour - an hour and a halfs work. I have gridded the reference picture and my canvas and drawn in the detail that way. I find it less intuitive than freehand sketching, but overall favour it as it gives a more accurate sketch in terms of proportions. :-) Overlaying this on my reference image, it's almost spot on, so I'm happy with that!

The sketch is always the very scary stage where it looks nothing like the person!! Lots of fingers crossed at this stage! :-)