Hunky perfume ad guy

This sketch materialized in a dentist's waiting room. I was the ride for someone who was getting a lot of dental work done and couldn't drive. I found an interesting photo in one of the waiting room magazines and this sketch is what came of it. I didn't try to get a perfect likeness from the photo; I used it as "inspiration." But it probably still resembles the reference photo.

Freehand drawing, Moleskine sketchbook, approximately 5x5 inches, done in about 2 hours. Standard 0.5 mm mechanical pencil bought at the grocery store, HD lead.

I did some minor Photoshop adjustments and cleaning up on the drawing.

I like this sketch because again it's all CROSSHATCHING. Not one pencil stroke was purposely blended or smeared. I did lift up some pencil here and there with my mechanical pencil's eraser, but that was all. I kept some of the Moleskine paper creamy color in this scan.

Because I'm such a crosshatching geek, I made this cropped detail of some of the crosshatching: