Art Wednesday - Shadows

I listen to Yahoo radio at work and three of these faces showed up in the corner of the screen. I think the shadows are pretty cool on these faces and I had to see if I could duplicate the effect with Gimp. So below are my versions. (some guy from a band called Aiden, a guy from Oasis, some other guy named Springfield, and Gilbert).

I just use a black background, paint the general shape with a wide, fully open air brush, then black in some details, and I use an almost shut white airbrush for the highlights. This simple style only takes about three minutes for each sketch.

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