digital painting exercise

I've almost not done any painting at all for the last year or so and therefore thought I should give it another try. I painted this after a great photo reference by photographer Tom Stone. I kinda lost patience when I got to the hat and sweater, but spent a lot of time on the facial details. Here's the result:

life drawing again

The new semester has started and there is now a weekly life drawing course for all design students, which I find mighty cool. These are some of the results from yesterday's session: