Careful with defining the jaw. There's a tendency to really overstate those details and put something in. That's more than what you see. So since we can only vaguely see where the chin ends and where the shadow on the neck begins, we want to put in the same impression of that the low amount of thumb definition that there is in there. And I want to just adjust the shape of this shadow a little bit it kind of comes out with it at the chin area. Looking again at this, I actually have just noticed that that back eye is too high.

So at this stage, it's really very easy to move things around. If you see something that's out of place. It's just a few lines at this stage. So just go ahead and wipe it out and, you know, readjust it, you'll be very happy that you did rather than painting a perfect eye and then discovering that it's really in the wrong place. Take the time to move things around at this stage. And so I blocked it in lightly at first using more wallet alkane medium, and now I'm using more pure paint, and just redefining some of those lines a bit more clearly.

We can see a little bit of the ear poking note which is cute. So to get that I'll use a horizontal plumb line and I find that it's horizontally in line with the eyebrow. And we can take a measurement of the height of the ear, compare it to the face and it's just under one of the one third measurements. So, and then to double check everything we can take another horizontal phone line from the bottom of the era cross and check and it's coming. in the right place on our painting just above the bottom of the nose. And this ear is in shadow.

So we want to make sure that it, you know, continues to sit back into that shadow area. And that nothing in the shadows should be as light as anything in the lights. So it'll just sit back there. And I'm not going to over define it at this stage, or at any stage really, but just make a little impression of it, so that I'll know where it is when I go to color. So I want to keep it refining the shapes of some of the features. And looking at the I just want to open up this AI a little bit more We can see a bit more of the circle of the iris in the shape of this eye and there's a nice curve to the upper eyelid in the back I also we can just suddenly define the nostril of the nose.

And continue to define some of the tones that make the features stand out. So I'm darkening behind the cheekbone since there's a nice clear edge to the shape on this side of the face. Okay, so we're just about done here. I'm just going to step back and take a look at it and see, you know if anything stands out, and I think that some of the final details that I'm seeing are more in the hair, just defining the turning of the form and the hair to top plane of the head being a little bit darker as it wraps back away from the light. Some of the nice curves in the flux of hair So the main thing that I want is for you to have fun with this and, you know, enjoy yourself. Try out these techniques, apply them, see what they can do for you.

And yeah, just have a lot of fun and as as you continue to practice your, your practice is going to grow and improve and Yeah, and I think and I can't wait to see what you do to wash your brushes. When you're done just rinse them around in some gamsol odorless mineral spirits. Wipe them with a rag to really get all the paint off and then wash them with soap and water.