It looks very much like Marcus. I also love the texture you used...sort of harmonious yet contridictory to the original photograph.

Oh so this is Mr solves shell. Lovely.

Woee *---* That's so cool!
I really like the charcoal ish style!
Great work!!

Great movie. Great draw. Now I want to draw him.

dude-Billy Bob Thorton-good movie

Haha...that's wonderful.

Thanks - I just copied the skull here though almost directly from my book at roughly the same angle. The main purpose of the exercise was to try to figure out how outer surface of the face forms around the skull (the red lines). I don't think I quite got that part right, as it looks kind of off to me.

As for my school, I'm out of school now. I was a computer science major, so I didn't get much in the way of art classes. The extent of my formal schooling comes mostly from my high school art class and a graphics design class I took in college that was geared towards business majors. Most of my learning comes from books. My favorite authors are Hogarth, Loomis, and Bridgman. Hogarth's books just make me feel like I know absolutely nothing about anatomy. Loomis is probably the most helpful, and I like how Bridgman simplifies the human form into very mechanical-looking parts. I also have this one from Barcsay which I've been looking at a lot lately which is probably the most helpful one when it comes to understanding the forms of individual bones and muscles.

I ultimately want to get comfortable drawing figures without references which is something I'm horrible at right now. I think it's because of the way I've used references traditionally in the past. I treated the process more as a hand-eye coordination exercise when copying what I saw rather than trying to learn the essential 3d forms through the experience. I'm trying to change that now.

Is your dog a Chihuahua as well? I love them - I have another one named Beauty (the black one).

Extremely well done.

yes i agree with Anne :)

This style reminds me a lot of my uncles art, wish I had an example to show you. Very pretty.

Imagine that, a guy on a couch. Guys never get on couches. This is moody and I like it, as well.

its no doubt his moms couch.

I LOVE THIS! *cheer*

Wonderful form, and use of color to display mood.

oooh this reminds me of G.I. Jane. Or maybe V for Vendetta that new movie, right? Coollll

She's beautiful.

Great work!

I keep visualizing her looking over some sort of fire....

Beautiful lighting... I imagine her sitting on a soft rug in front of a fireplace, and her expression looks like she's longing for someone. When a painting gives you a larger picture than what's actually depicted in the subject matter, it works. This does.

awesome!!

Oh thanks. :) I don't know how much I learned doing this study, but I did find out something exciting about the forearm. I'll try to draw another picture to show what I mean. It's probably common sense for most people, but I never really thought about it.

The proportions are probably a bit off in this one, but I wasn't concerned about proportions - I just wanted to get the basic idea of the shapes of the bones at the angles provided. Also the bones look a bit thin to me for the amount of flesh I put around them. That's probably something I'm going to have to develop intuitively.

Its a very good study...when I had my life drawing class in the summer for college I remember my teacher having us draw each bone individually before she even let us draw full bodies...it helped alot, just knowing exactly how each bone connected to the next, and how weight effected them. The pelvis can be difficult, because of the curves, but honestly I like drawing it. (I'm talking about drawing in pencil/charcoal though, because haha I really lack skill with the mouse.)
I'm very impressed.

Good color choices homes.

what it is pimpin' :D lol

Whoa! Cool!!
I like the feet =D