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Maggie Grace

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Jaime Pressly

Jessica Alba

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Alena Seredova

Ali Landry

While I'm far from mastery of even the art of faces, I'm trying to find subjects which have new challenges, different angles, complex shading, or (worst of all) hands and feet. Initially I wasn't going to post this because of the flaws I can see in it, but that wouldn't be very truthful now, would it? Much like the mindset since I started taking photos in earnest, my brain now automatically looks for material which would be interesting to draw too.

Heidi Klum

I had a couple of goes at getting the face right, and still wasn't very successful. Part of the problem with working at A5 size instead of A4. The new sketchbook I bought on Friday is upsized, so when I start using that I might get some better results on the non-portrait drawings I'm doing, with extra room to move.

Technique

I tried a different technique to indicate shade in this one, to avoid it being overwhelmed by black and grey. You can't really see it in the small size picture, but I like how it turned out.

Natalie Portman

Ashley Scott

Laetitia Casta

More shading, specially for Em. Plus I like the shaded ones too!

Usually I draw the face then layer shadows on top, but in this one I started with the shape of the shadow and filled in features afterwards. I think it worked well :)

Gemma Atkinson

Rachel Stevens

Shiri Appleby

Nikki Visser

Amy Acker

Sandra Bullock

More shading

While it's (much) more time consuming, I like drawing pictures where the reference has interesting shadows. Here's what happens when I get carried away with too much shading...