OCA D5: Studies in colour

This piece was a quick 20 minute life drawing study with some added colour samples.

I've just - 22:29 the evening before I'm to post out my work - decided that I'm unhappy with this as a submission for my colour study exercise, so I'm going to spend a couple of hours working on a self portrait.

So, last minute - late last night - I spent a couple of hours making some new colour studies. I wanted to experiment with some new pens I purchased so made a couple of self portraits mixing the pens with crayon. I'm not confident with pens and unsure of how bold I can be before they become over-worked.

Here is a little progression...

I'm going to work on more of these, gradually building up colour to see how bold I can make it.

Update...

I've just been experimenting, cropping compositions in Photoshop. I think the backwards tilt of the head and the downwards stare is quite imposing and is given more impact with a tighter composition.