back to uni after christmas

Hullo! its masel!

I went back to Edinburgh for Christmas and new year. During that time I worried incessantly about how much work I had to do and how while I was there I wasn't making any progress.

So today is my first proper day back. My friend Josh, http://xxepicxx.deviantart.com/ who is an amazingly talented digital painter recommended that I do 'studies' where I pick something in particular ie facial proportion, hands, eyes, hair etc etc and try to make that particular thing as perfect as I can without focusing on much detail elsewhere.

so I decided I'd try one on male muscle proportion

So I got a bunch of reference imagery

 baring in mind I didn't to make a total superhero monster of a man, this is what I came up with. The whole using studies idea seems to work really well. Cheers Josh!