That hoe really screwed me up.
Two muscles in my right hand and one in my wrists are painfully sore and haven't been working properly yesterday or today. It's quite frustrating. I have a lot of things I like to do with my hands.
Typing's okay, doesn't use the same muscles. So I'm just going to talk about drawing.

What I would be working on if the universe would cooporate would be A. Painting something with guitar strings. Unfortunately, my friend who has access to such things forgot to pass them along. Soon enough. I swear it will happen. Or B. Button Boy: BEGINS. Because the first Button Boy isn't proportionate and looks like a pansy. I took it back to the original reference(s) to fix it.

I've realized (now turn to page "button boy" in your ibooks) that his right side of the his face extends further, I made the beginners mistake of assuming that the face ended where it ended because it was black there. Not so! So the mouth is screwed up.

But who cares about last years work? If I could draw right now, I would be filling in the darker spots between strokes on his jaw in a vertical, wood-grain-ish way to smooth out the rough, first layer of shading and create the appearance that the plane was extending away from us. Like a landscape, it gets smaller.

Then I'd go back and attack his cheekbone. I'd run some more black over that shadow on the front of his cheek (it's really just like underlighting I've realized) and start shading those little lumps that make his skin look imperfect. I hate perfect skin. The cheekbone's the part that's closest to us in this version. I'm going to make that part the most insanely detailed, and see if I can't make the rest of the painting support this focus. I can drop some edges, and darken the darks to make that cheekbone come forward.

Also, if I could draw, I would not be detailing hair. I'll suggest it around the temples and let the rest live in darkness. Hair is distracting. If I need more later I'll add it, but it'll be slightly out of focus.

The whole thing is in black and white right now. It might stay that way.

Today's piece of face:
The side of the point of the chin. Extending from just below the round lump where the muscles meet at the corner of the mouth, down past the two round bits of the greater lower lip area, in a triangular shape with the base at the indent in the jaw where the mass of muscles that is the chin starts. (There should have been a few more bits of punctuation in there I think.) This plane is the first part of a three or four plane set that I've been looking at recently. Together, they make an 'S' shape up around the cheek.
Today's piece of face is stretched biggest when smiling or yelling.