Some days are just harder than others. It isn’t bad or good. Learning and practice still happen. The first sketches were just observing the photo in different ways: looking for lights and darks and rough proportions, drawing without looking at the page (eyes just on photo), drawing while the photo was upside down, and one playing with what changes with a slight chin tilt up. I ended up thinking that in the photo, most of the guy’s personality was in his left eye area.