Confessions of a researchaholic

I used the lower layers for blocking and layout, higher layers for details, and different layers for different objects (Gollum, human, pillow). Later, I can reuse some of the layers for different compositions.

I drew from two photos, replacing the kid on the left, who was grimacing anyway, with Gollum, per request by the guy on the right.

Somehow I made the mistake of setting a low image resolution at the beginning, but fortunately that does not seem to reduce the image quality too much.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/72467801/gollum

Sighting a photo displayed on a Kindle Fire, I experimented this drawing via Sketchbook on an iPad Pro with Apple pencil.
Digital painting provides more flexibility in physics and interaction (e.g. undo, zoom-in) but lacks the tactile feedback of canvas papers.

Erasing fine details on the current drawing can be difficult. A potential enhancement is to consider workflows for smart eraser.

We started at around 1:10 pm and finished at 1:25 pm to accommodate our meeting schedules.

Self-reminder: start with coarse shapes and volumes before fine contours and shading.

It is deceptively challenging to depict portrait intricacies with coarse shading. I captured the eyes after a while, but not yet the mouth.
After seeing the original photo instead of the low res black-white one I drew as the source, I realized that the head tilt is off, contributing to the weird mouth composition.

I am still learning how to draw with correct proportions in slow speed, but quick sketches can still be a good practice and a way to capture serendipitous life events: a guy sitting across me on the north-bound BART train, people I spotted in a restaurant, and a guy sleeping on the south-bound BART train.

The eyes are a bit too far apart and the mouth a bit too wide on the far side, the latter of which I corrected a bit.