Sketchbook Page Portrait

This is a scanned page from my sketchbook. I drew this from a photograph that was in an excellent book I recently picked up. It's called Facial Expressions : A Visual Reference for Artists by Mark Simon. The book is a visual reference of people's faces in the best poses I've ever seen in a book like this. I have a bunch of different visual reference books, but this one really stands out, especially coming from a cartoonist's perspective. There isn't just people's faces in the book, there are tons of great extreme facial expressions. It's such a fun thing to flip through the book and sketch some of these facial poses, which you rarely get to see.