Monthly scraps - Apr 2016 /update

That post can end up being long. Don't know exactly how long yet tho'.

First of all - that's monthly scraps post so I got for you this:

I wanted to check how my brain thinks the average French man looks like. Well... I've never seen so manly-looking French in my life, so I've no idea why he came out this way.

1. Terrible choice of background colour. I don't know what I was thinking...
Rough indication of facial features. I wanted him to have very sharp, heavy, though look.
I had no pre-existing sketch whatsoever, nor the references, so I was just squinting my eyes, and putting dark tones where I was thinking it's good place to put them.

2. Shape refinement, darker tones, lighter tones.

3. Guy with pointy nose, cheeks and chin needs pointy ear. That's a rule no.1 of painting (not really) - period.

4. I really wanted to take him to presentable stage, so I put some lines, to know where to put the lighter tones and hard edges. These lines were meant to be overpainted. Now I can see the perspective is a bit wacky.

5. Overpainted some of lines.

6. Added some lights.

At this moment I've lost ma patience and that's where the UPDATE part begins.

Long story short - my tablet doesn't work as it used to. I just don't have that 20% of the initial pressure levels. Can't draw light lines any more.
It's not the driver problem. It seems to not be the Win 10 default Pen and Touch service problem either. I have tested out few drawing programs and problem appears in every one of them.
CTH-460 served me well for 3 last years (end even then it was 2 years old model), so I think its time has come. I'll switch back to Win 8.1 just to be sure it's not the system issue.

I'll be still drawing stuff but it's fucking irritating. Maybe I'll figure out some camera and I'll be just putting the photos of what I drew in sketchbook... Maybe won't.

GL&HF
So long