Sktchy portrait

This one was tricky, just because of his head tilt/turn and the shape of his head, not to mention the sunglasses and the facial hair and dreads. I ultimately gave in to impulse and did an ink outline to improve the appearance of my less than stellar effort on this guy, whose name is Dale.

I did a pale pink ink wash on the paper before starting him, to give him a bit more glow than he had in the example. The demonstrator actually said that he wished he had incorporated more red and pink, so I figured the underwash would help. It did, some, but then I went too yellow with my fleshtones and negated the benefits a little. Plus, then his teeth and beard were pink and I had to tweak.

"Dale" is pencil, Daler Rowney inks, gesso, Uniball pen, Jackson watercolors, and white gel pen, on Fluid 140-lb. coldpress watercolor paper, approx. 9x11 inches.

This took forever, and I'm now a day behind, having done the fun and wonky portrait of Adele yesterday instead of this guy. I guess as long as I do A portrait a day, it doesn't have to be the particular portrait. Right?