The approach to drawing the head is really helping me to build a reasonable version of the portrait.  The braiding was a challenge and I started with the approach of building one after the other but struggled to build form.  As you can see I took the portrait one stage further and blended the hatching and im really pleased with how it turned out.  Braden you are a great tutor and loving the results I get by following the Loomis and Asaro method.