Are both of these yours or is one by Coll and the other a study of …?
I see what you mean about a loose style, nice!

Yes, I know what you mean … but it’s always difficult to reproduce another artist’s work in exactly the same way!
I’d take from it what you’ve learned (a lot, it seems) and apply it to a work of your own.

Brush, pen, combination of both….?

Coll is certainly one of the greats and you have done a great job of capturing his style.

Love this! Coll is wonderful and you can learn a ton by copying his strokes. Can you recommend a book of his work? I have a couple of general pen & ink books that include a few of his drawings, but I’d like to be able to study more of his work (without sitting in front of a computer screen).

I crossed my eyes and it’s in stereo, at least definitely the face and hand (except probably the middle finger). The hand definitely reaches out to you. The black jacket looked confusing and hurt my eyes. The pipe did not look right and seemed broken.

I’d say great job! It’s nearly perfect! I don’t know if putting your sketch in stereo was intentional or not, but it sure seems a fun idea now… take existing sketches and turn them to stereo!

Coll is on the left and mine is on the right. You can see how tight and controlled he was able to get his strokes in the hand and on the forehead, etc… Mine lacks the sensitivity of the one on the left. You can see how he handled the edges in the cheek area as well…so good. I’m finding that closer knit lines in areas are more of a challenge to keep controlled for me. Mine is lacking in that cheek area for sure. His style is so deceptively difficult.

I’m brand new here on WC yet I remmember your phenomenal thread on CA.org Jon! You’re one of my heroes

Anyway, you probably already know this but it’s somewhat always the case while trying to copy another artists work. They focused on differend things at the time of doing the painting.

While One is trying to emmulate someone else’s brush work or colour choices, the artists that did the original could’ve been thinking about how to make that eye more manly or feminine or even about a chicken sandwich for that matter! So I wouldn’t worry too much about that, your study is really solid, and I bet you have learned a lot from it.

Last but not least, your version has YOU in it and Coll’s work has Coll in it and that’s fine. I rather see someone’s interpretation rather than 100% accurate “forgery”. Have a great day man, good to see you here

if you try it again, do it upside down – might get it closer…