General Scribbles

I did want a lot more of the face to be "missing" but it didn't work as I'd hoped. It seems like I'm always looking for new ways to paint less and less.
All in the interest of style, of course, nothing to do with laziness or anything like that.

The eyes look pretty accurate. Without looking at any reference I would say that Ryan Gosling has a more pointier chin.
At the moment the wider chin and fuller face is giving me a bit of Ryan Reynolds or a young Matthew Macfadyen.

I do like these sketches with patches of alternating cross-hatching. It gives an image a sense of dimension and texture in a sparse but efficient way. When I try it I just end up with a terrible Etch-A-Sketch effect.

I wish everybody did look the same.
It'd make portraits a lot easier.


Didn't quite get the nose right on this one. I could've wasted more time nudging and/or shading but I'd had enough of it for today... and every day after.