Still struggling to show the head tilted to the right.
I'm using up the maribu watersoluble (oil pastel) art crayons pretty fast. Think I'll go back to using my tackle box of regular oil pastels where I have a wider range of values.
Looking at "Portraits from life in 29 steps" by John Howard Sanden isbn: 978-1-58180-582-6
He doesn't differentiate between drawing and painting. Drawing is position, placement, and modeling. You need to observe and select. He shows how to use angles/mapping/proportion (relative distances, plumbing, and positive/negative shapes.
Value is important of course and he talked about the six kinds of tone; light, halftone, shadow, reflected light, cast shadow, highlight. (Side note; I listened to an outdoor painter podcast this month where an artist made value scales using gray that he mixed from ultramarine blue? and red iron oxide?)
He showed the colors he uses to make portraits divided into neutrals, darks, halftones, and lights.
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