Cast drawing

I'm taking a cast drawing course at the Grand Central Academy of Art in NYC.  It's in this GORGEOUS old building and the studio is basically my romantic dream vision of what an art studio should be. The student work is mind blowing. Last saturday was the first class, and I undertook this ear.

Hopefully at the end of tomorrow it will look exactly like the cast.

I've had to take a lot of shortcuts in my job to get the work done faster, and it's made me lazy.  It's refreshing to be in an environment where someone is forcing me to get the drawing exactly perfect.