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This is another attempt at digitally painting something from a photo reference in order to practise lighting, anatomy, *patience*, and so on and so forth. This time it is a man. I mention that because it's totally ambiguous, of course.

I think it took about three hours also, though I found it much more draining to do than the last. I felt like I could - maybe should - have spent much longer on it, refining details, but it was getting really tiring, and I just wanted to get it out of the way. I feel I at least learned from it, but I can't say I'm 100% satisfied with it.

As usual, it's from an image I got from Google Image Search, so I've no idea who it is! Maybe he's a celebrity that some other people will recognise (I don't), or maybe he's an underwear model or pornstar or something. I don't know!
I chose the photo because of the strong and dramatic lighting, and the clear view of his chest muscles, which I need to familiarise myself with. I understand them all on a conceptual level after doing loads of tutorials about individual muscles, but I don't have much experience actually drawing them from real models.

Anyway, I hate bodies like this and find them both enviable and terrifying, as I am skinny and devoid of muscles myself. Isn't that totally interesting?!

Description
This is another attempt at digitally painting something from a photo reference in order to practise lighting, anatomy, *patience*, and so on and so forth. This time it is a man. I mention that because it's totally ambiguous, of course.

I think it took about three hours also, though I found it much more draining to do than the last. I felt like I could - maybe should - have spent much longer on it, refining details, but it was getting really tiring, and I just wanted to get it out of the way. I feel I at least learned from it, but I can't say I'm 100% satisfied with it.

As usual, it's from an image I got from Google Image Search, so I've no idea who it is! Maybe he's a celebrity that some other people will recognise (I don't), or maybe he's an underwear model or pornstar or something. I don't know!
I chose the photo because of the strong and dramatic lighting, and the clear view of his chest muscles, which I need to familiarise myself with. I understand them all on a conceptual level after doing loads of tutorials about individual muscles, but I don't have much experience actually drawing them from real models.

Anyway, I hate bodies like this and find them both enviable and terrifying, as I am skinny and devoid of muscles myself. Isn't that totally interesting?!