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Maybe I haven't stated my case strongly enough. Did I mention I supply the pencils?
Seriously, when you get a teacher, I hope you share some of the lessons you learn along the way. In college, my fine art classes were all freshman/sophmore level. After that, I took mostly design classes, so I wouldn't mind the inside scoop on the advanced lessons.
Of course, like most college art programs these days, my school's fine art program didn't value basic skills. The senior shows all seemed to emphasize abstract work. The design program stressed hand skills and creative solutions, but we weren't doing portraits.
I just got Tony Ryder's book this weekend. I've read half of it, and I feel that his approach gives a very methodical process for capturing reality. I don't know if I'd spend 30 hours drawing a figure from life, like he does, though. On amazon.com, I saw some negative reviews, but I found that I can apply his methods pretty quickly. I did a quick study last night, and honed in on a likeness with greater predictability than I had in the past. Give it a look.
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