Practicing Females

A few pieces I did over the last week or so practicing painting females from reference and imagination. The goal was just to explore different lighting situations and angles, as well as work on rendering the female face. I Still have much to learn.

Painted from Reference. Trying to practice painting a female face in different angles.

Painted from reference. Trying to study values.

Started out as a lighting study but turned into something else.

Quick sketch from imagination

Messing around with lighting from imagination.