Haha yeah, I prefer drawing those kinda faces to the pristine young ones. Having a lot of blemishes and wrinkles makes it easier for me to orient myself and distracts from imperfections with values etc. It is a bit of a crutch tho. Really like your 2nd try btw!
Love it. I also had a time when I was using mugshots as references. Mind sharing the inspiration?
The likeness isn’t great, but I enjoyed dashing off a sketch of this guy. Full of character and worth a revisit!
I think you got the sort of sour and drunk character of the eyes and the mouth pretty spot on. Definitely nice work!
Here is one of my digital ones:
And the reference:
Wow! You picked some model!
Haha yeah, I prefer drawing those kinda faces to the pristine young ones. Having a lot of blemishes and wrinkles makes it easier for me to orient myself and distracts from imperfections with values etc. It is a bit of a crutch tho. Really like your 2nd try btw!