Skin Tone Study

Practicing more with skin tones. I'm trying to use less lines in the figure and instead just let the shading define muscle groups and such... that being the case I should have skipped the brown ink outline and detail in the abs and just gone straight up chiaroscuro for that part...but then I wouldn't be able to see my sketch guidelines... actually I guess best practice would be to just go from rough sketch to flat layer, leave the rough sketch on top of the flat while working on shading. Yeah, that could work.... Ok, next time.

Process gif, because they are just fun to make.