I'm trying to get back on track. I've been working on new pieces, reading art related books and getting back to my master studies as I've stated before. I think I missed last week on master studies but I've got a new one this week.
I think the last few drawings I tried to be really measured and precise but this time I just went for it.

I go back and forth as to whether this is to be able to perfectly replicate the drawing or just to get more practice. I looked through all my drawings and compared them to the original drawing and while I think some are much better than others, somehow the eyes all seem very upset or angry, where as I get a different feeling from the da Vinci sketch. I keep thinking that it might be time to move on to another artist or another sketch but I think I'd like to keep trying to get the eyes better at least. Eyes are a very important part of a portrait, they convey so much, or at least they can.