Face Side Profile Study

Practicing not leaning so much on my heavy line art at the moment to focus more on rendering and form.

initial sketch - I know, it's looking a bit janky, but I run with it anyway, this is just me practicing

cleaning up the lineart. I'm still not super happy with it but I continue to rendering just to get the practice in.

As I start painting digitally I start sculpting the different areas by first building up the shadows and then the highlights afterwards.