Portrait Drawing Final

So this week I turned in my Portrait Drawing final.  Below you can see the process I went through to create it.

The final piece

First I took some reference photos, and this was the one that I decided to go with.  I also turned it to grayscale on the right so that I could better see the values.  Thanks so much to my good friends, Emma, Jinny, and Hillary for posing for me.

Then I did some thumbnail sketches of the different composition ideas.  I decided to go with the last one.

And the final product again!