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Underpainting
I don't know the book but one of the best reasons for underpainting is to nail down your drawing, design and values before painting. It ought to be very accurate to have the most worth to you later. You simply must take more time on it than you might wish, then you must retain that as you add color.
It's important to learn in a wise order. One does not learn to hit a curveball to the opposite field before learning to grip the bat. If you'll paint from life the hair and color issues will come to you better than from copying a copy from a book. This is a lot of generations from a living human being. Paint a person directly from life. It need only require a mirror.
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