Some LifeRoom Studies

For the past few weeks I've been working very slowly on a Xenia Hausner mastercopy and have spent way too much time on the word of the week assignments.  A million things to do and no time to do it. So when in doubt, here's some liferoom drawings from this quarter...

I've been experimenting with different techniques.  My norm thus far has been vine or willow on newsprint for shorter poses and hard charcoal pencils and a stump on strathmore charcoal paper for sustained poses.  Now I'm changing it up.  I saw a youtube demo where an artist drew a portrait, wiped it out, then redrew another version over the ghost image and repeated the process, slowly building up value as he did.  This is my attempt at that.  For portraits, it a fast way to go because all the the subtle values happen on the own instead of needing to stump my way over everything.

 This is my standard stump + hard charcoal pencil on Strathmore

Here's my attempt at Henry Yan's method, vine/compressed/med charcoal pencil on newsprint.  His thing all boils down to just being really good, working really fast, and line quality.  He's my idol so the plan is to keep working like this for awhile.