Now that I have the concept and the pose nailed down I sit down and work out the final drawing. I decided on a kneeling man in a suit as the missing compositional element. Using reference material at this point is crucial to the outcome of your painting. I spent a couple of hours(at least) searching online for adequate reference material. Sometimes I'll shoot reference myself if I can't find what I'm looking for easily enough. I tend to work with actual pencil and paper at a pretty large size. This sketch was done on 11"x14" paper, but it wasn't large enough as I had to tape other sheets to it toward the bottom. I find drawing in the computer really limits me. I can't get nearly as good a line flow with a tablet as I can on a nice large sheet of paper. Here I started off rough with red pencil, then tightened everything with an HB lead..
