Quick Sketch Painting

I've been reading the book "The Practice and Science of Drawing" by Harold Speed which is a good book on drawing and creating good artistic work. This is a very simplistic quick sketch of Plate 23 of the book. I've got a long way to go to master the paint but that is my challenge. I noticed that I had a difficult time with the paint but I was working on a small scale. ( It's more like a thumbnail sketch.)

I went to Nathan Fowkes Class and he admonishes us to turn off the TV and do hundreds of the kinds of sketches. His work is amazing and worth the effort to take his class.

I continue to work on the Asaro Planes of the Head and site sizing.
Once I scan the image in I can really see the mistakes I've made.
(It's there for all the world to see.)
I need to work on my line which I'm trying to hide as I go.
I have not really got the handle on using the newsprint and the charcol so I've decided to go to charcol paper to see if
that works any better... we'll find out.