Gulp. The big leap – I finally did something with a full body. And… the body is better than the head. I had to redo the eyes about six times to get them to this point. It’s not finished – the darkest values need to be kept at. Using my Pentel GraphGear 500 0.9mm 2B. About an hour, probably a little more, to get to this point. So not long.

And here he is about 30 minutes later. Better, but not enough mid tones. Looks like I need to get out the value key for more practice.

Trio of bear heads. Expanding, slowly expanding… for some reason (note the size difference between left-most and right-most). It’s from the exact same photograph. GraphiGear again.

The first head started life as line art and looked like complete shite. I mean, it belonged on one of those cheesy child-oriented sites where kids (ages 5-8) learn how to draw happy animals. A little shading started to make it look like a sketch.

The gray noise to the right of the pic is from the scanner.