Faces!

Here are some sketches of my sister and fiancé. I started with some sketches without looking at the page for observational practice.  Not looking at the page helps to focus on details in the face that can be warped by memory and pre-conceived ideas of what a face should look like.
The outcome, although slightly messier has a more life-like quality and an essense of the person which I find can be lost when a drawing is overworked. 

This is a drawing I did of Thom about 1 year ago.  I thought I would post it to demonstrate what happens when a drawing becomes overworked. He looks so still and flat like a 14th century portrait.