I am done, and I am exhausted. Took the entire course in one week. Very happy with the last piece. I learned a lot from it about how to actually finish the drawing. It's always very hard to think of what to add after the initial structure sketch. The detailing in this final lesson is fantastic - it feels much more finished and alive without feeling over-detailed, like it doesn't have every strand of hair drawn detail, but the atmosphere, the ornaments, the stylistic choices, the background add so much more than strands of hair ever would. This last lesson felt pretty fast, somewhat hard to follow, I think it took me 1.5 hours instead of 1, with all the pauses and rewinds when trying to look at what @Patrick Jones was doing and then focusing on replicating the same. Thank you so much for the podcasty feel, definitely calmed me down, as I felt quite nervous going into the last piece - something about it being the last piece added the pressure of wanting it to be good and not messing up. All the suggestions really helped with not feeling as anxious about my work, and it was awesome to see how you managed to fix and change pretty major parts of the artwork. Here are my final pieces - the one from the previous lesson, the final one, and my small SFW variation, as I plan to share it with friends who might not be ready for the nudity. Thank you SOOOOO MUCH for this course, it was phenomenal - I'll be rewatching it a few more times to really digest all the information.

So far my favorite of the three long poses. I think something is starting to click in my head. Feeling some Leyendecker influences in those eraser marks, or maybe it's just something I see in my drawing, but the direction of applying them is a very cool way to make it look more alive. Also more happy with my values this time, the darks vs the highlights, last time it felt a bit too mid-tone. Thank you @Patrick Jones! Mine is still digital, and the close-up looks atrocious compared to the charcoal and pencil. I do want to stay in the digital realm for now, so will need to come up with an idea of how to make digital look less digital, or more interesting in some other way.

Still being stubborn and insisting on doing it digitally. I think I figured out the tools to mimic what Patrick is doing, except still struggling with making smudging look even a little bit as natural as it does with charcoal.

Feel like mine turned out a bit more cartoony. Will need to examine more closely why it feels like that. Thank you very much for the long pose!

Wasn't expecting the face swap at the end. I guess I'll continue with the original face. I feel like mine is a bit more muddy - can't tell the background from the figure. Not sure what's the best solution to solve this, I have some ideas, but will leave it for the next time so I don't get too off course.

Follow-along of the last 30 minutes

Thank you for the demonstration. It was somewhat hard to follow the anatomy explanation while also trying to keep up with the drawing process. Will probably need to rewatch to absorb the anatomy stuff a bit better.

Here is my follow-along. Pretty happy with it, especially liked the arm and hand demonstrations - the anatomy there is kind of crazy so looking forward to the following lessons to explain it in detail. I did it digitally, and it definitely felt a bit more limiting than what Patrick was showing - I really want to feel that charcoal on newspaper, the iPad screen felt very small and slippery, especially since I kept it all at fixed zoom level, compared to what looks like an A3 or A2 paper - I take these lessons after work in the office so charcoal or any messy materials aren't really an option. I also don't really have any experience with charcoal so a bit scared of it :) I don't think I've ever smudged this much in my life, that felt awesome, I didn't use undo at all - just smudged everything I didn't like and then drew over it, I did use the eraser a couple times for highlights since the smudging made the areas too dark. It all felt very natural and unconstrained, and I think the smudging added a lot to the values and shadow tones later on. Great lessons so far, thank you Patrick!