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Michael, I can really appreciate your challenges and can see definite improvement.
I am at the moment teaching one of my students to work with Sanguine. Not many understand the difficulties that this medium presents. One is to keep the pencil sharp for the details.
I tend to think that, If one does not receive instruction in this medium then one is better off working with charcoal. Why charcoal? Because it is more manageable than this red chalk. The charcoal pencils are too oily, more permanent, difficult to erase. So, charcoal sticks are best and if you can get the fusions they are the real deal because they have no hard spots, which can put a gash in your paper, and you have B, HB, H. Plus you can sharpen them to a fine point for detail work.
If you haven't tried these charcoals then it's a must and when you do you will never want any other for these are top of the line. Super Fusians.
I like charcoal because you can really push the darks which I find that Sanguin lacks and one is forced to use a darker value.
I do agree with Peter's suggestion. Have you see Green's DVD on drawing faces? If you haven't you should. He in great detail explains the proportional process and takes you to the finish.
Keep up the good work.
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