Friendly faces...

I seem to be fixated on faces right now. I started this statue study to focus on the figure and to get a better understanding of abstraction of the human form. But now I'm captivated by faces.

Here's the statue I'm working on now

This figure is another from childhood. We broke the left hand off long ago. 

The first sketch in ink

My semester project has been puppets. They are finally close to complete. Now I am creating 2-D images of the 3-D figures. It's sort of like painting a portrait of a friend.