I am looking forward to this course, I am 67 years old and have tried to paint a portrait about 12 times, all horrible! I am not gonna lie the charcoal was difficult for me to use. You sir are an amazing artist and I am going to benefit GREATLY!

I am waiting for my material to be delivered, being new to oil paint, I had to buy everything. I did have a Fredix Canvas pad, so I am practicing on it. The coat of acrylic grey ended up drying a lot darker than the wet color, so I applied a second lighter coat. It makes the canvas feel like plastic. I probably used too thick of a coat. When the panels arrive I will be redoing this whole exercise. More practice definitely won't hurt. I noodled with this too much, but I did get a pretty good likeness.

Hello Morgan, Great video! It was very insightful regarding the thinking process. I often find myself getting stuck in the construction phase, trying to position everything correctly, but your approach was really helpful. I added some additional grids around the face to enhance accuracy. My printed version of the photo was quite dark, which made it a bit difficult to see certain shapes. Overall, the process was really enjoyable as I watched everything come together. I do feel that my natural grey is a bit too dark.

I hope you don't mind that I used my own image for this assignment. It doesn't have as much contrast but I'm hoping I can pull a beautiful painting out of this.

Hi, Morgan! Thanks for the assignment, the grid made it much easier than I was expecting. Looking forward to seeing how this leads to the next stages.

Hi, Morgan. So far, this course has been exactly what I've been looking for. Like Leon below, I used a ruler instead of folding paper -- a two-inch grid for the larger areas and a 1-inch grid for the features.

Really enjoyed this exercise. Huge eye opener for me. I was confused by the folding paper method so I just used a ruler? I Hope that’s ok. I was a doubting my effort quite abit during this exercise but stuck to the basics and followed the shapes. never painted in my life but always wanted to learn. Thanks for taking the time and showing us your process 🤝

First of all I didn't use gessoed oil paint panel. This is my sketch book. Also I used square grid. Not the same grid used here. (I prefer freehand drawing to be the one on oil paint panel) :)

Hello! I just wanted to say what a great course this is. Thank you!

Try one. My black and white was darker than yours. I’m going to sleep on it and see how it looks then. The under the lip part looks weird.

First lesson and i already learnt something new :)

Grid drawing. Used gessoed Arches oil painting paper. Have not used a grid for a long time and it's refreshing to draw like that. Somehow the face feels like its too wide, but I guess the grids don't lie. Now it's outside after the fixative waiting to be painted!