Beautiful Dreamer updates

I've gotten a little more work done. I still need to finish the hair but I did a little of work in the neck and background. I also tried to reexamine the proportions again. I still have a bunch of things to fix. I know what they are though and that's what's important. It's getting late right now though so I'll have to pick this up tomorrow. I'm still feeling good about the deadline, again though we'll see if that changes as it gets closer. The photo I took of it isn't the best but I really wanted to update this.

Beautiful Dreamer updates

I got some more work done. I've decided to do the background. I'm eliminating the linear architecture in the far background, but the leaves and that metal sculpture piece is going to be there. I'm starting to sketch in more of the drawing, though I plan to keep with the idea of working from the top down so I don't smear anything. I still think I'm doing pretty good time wise. I got more done today than I was expecting to.

Background debate

I've done some more work on the hair, and gotten a bit of sketching done. I'm really happy with the hair. Though now I'm starting to question my decision on the background. I'm really determined to start adding more into my backgrounds, but I'm not sure if this will be too busy with the background in it. I also want want to work from the top down on this so I don't smear it later when I come back in to do the background. I need to put some more thought into that. Also I'm really shooting to get this done for a competition deadline, May 1. I think so far I'm on schedule. I don't know though it's hard to tell this early on.

Not much progress, but it's something

I'm stressing out a good bit about this. I don't have my progress done because I'm stressing over every detail and I'm struggling with the hair. I tried to fix the lips again, I think the shadow on the right side needs a little tweaking now, but other than that I'm leaving it alone. I'm not sure if it's better or worse now, than it was before. So in fear of just ruining it I'm going to pretty much leave it alone, and concentrate on the hair. Which still needs a lot of work, it just doesn't look right right now.

Small Drawing Update

I spent less than an hour working on this, so of course it's not epic progress, but it's something. I still think the lips are a bit off, and I think rather than tweaking they just need to be fully erased. Though I love how I drew them and if I had real life Photoshop cut and paste abilities I'd just do that and move them up a little and rotate them a little. I'm having some difficulty with the hair, which is about usual for me, because I find hair so difficult. I'm trying to lay the values in subtly on the face without getting too dark to quick. Though I'm having trouble getting dark enough in the hair. Once I perfect the face and work some more on the hair I'll move on to the body. Then maybe I'll just loosely sketch in the rest of the composition. I'm really fascinated with some of the shapes and objects in the background but I'm not sure exactly how much of the background I'll include. I don't want it to look to busy. I might dark the background a bit overall just to make it recede. Though a flash wasn't used to take the photo, I was lit from the front by a huge window so the darks aren't too strong to begin with. I think the soft lighting works, despite my preference for dramatic lighting.

Drawing

Yep, it's an ear. It's not much in the way of progress but I'm pretty happy about it. It's something solid in the way of that second figure. Also I almost never start drawing a person at the ear. I usually start at the eyes. I think the ear is a bit closer to the other figure's chin than it should be but I think it will work out for the best. I think more of the face will fit in the composition properly. I may have just lost a bit of hair in the move but really nothing major. I've had a hard time trying not smear the work I've already got done. I did find putting a pen under my arm helped quite a bit.
Overall I'm pretty nervous about this second figure. I can't even get the sketching of the eye quite right, also it's not often that I do a drawing, or painting for that matter, with two figures. I'm worried about getting the proportions correct in relation to each other. This drawing is proving to be more of a challenge for me than I originally thought. But the challenge is good.
I'm still unsure if the background should be black or white. I'm still leaning more toward white. Though I'm thinking I may come in with a 4B pencil when I'm done and darken up some of the shadows a bit. Maybe even use a 6B in the hair. I think it will definitely up the depth a bit to bring in some darker shading. I could probably even push it more with my 2B, but I think I'll get the second figure done and then go back over it.