(Nudity!) Sketch Of The Day - Raphael Master Study

This daily sketch is another one that I drew for the Sketchstorm thread at ImagineFX. This time a Raphael master study, drawn in ink pen as usual. A reproduction of the original along with 99 other master drawings can be found in Robert Beverly Hale's superb book on figure drawing, Drawing Lessons From The Great Masters.

WiP of the day - Millais master study

As an exercise suggested in a workshop in the ImagineFX forum, I'm doing a master study of Millais beautiful painting "Sound of many waters". Millais was one of the artists belonging to the Pre-Raphaelite school of painting. The exercise is to try and reproduce a Pre-Raphaelite master work as well as you can, in order to gain a more thorough understanding of its composition, color palette used etc.

Here is the original:

And here is a WiP of my digital chalk (ArtRage) version of the painting. So far I've been using chalk sizes from 100-10% to establish the big overall shapes and color patterns before moving into more and more detail.