Trying A Little Waterhouse

I have been looking at the work of John William Waterhouse, most famous I suppose for his pre preraphaelite "Ophelia" painting.

Here I tried to get an essence of his work, did this with no real reference, so skin tone an lighting were imagined, maybe if I had a reference it might have taken less time to paint. This took about 8 hrs and it still isn't at a completed stage, but I learnt enough from it that I can put it to one side for a while.

 

Quick Figure Sketches

 

Did some quick sketches of the moving figure. Just trying to capture the figure with quick gestural mark making. These took about 5-10mins.

 

I've signed up for a Life class that begins next month. As well as the traditional media, I am hoping to take my laptop and wacom pen and tablet so I can do some digital drawing/painting.
So here is a figure study as a little practice session:

Digital Portrait painting Step by Step