Having no formal figure drawing training doesn't help much... but, I am trying.
This guy's a stylistic study from few months back.. Playing around with brush characteristics and hierarchy of detail...
At one point the thought of starting a sketch blog seemed idiotic, but, alas, here it begins...
This particular 'sketch painting' is a still-life of an old carburetor from a scooter I tore apart several months back. At the time, oil was still spewing into the Gulf, so adding a little BP tag seemed appropriate ^___^