P. Is For Preliminaries

I haven't decided yet what style I'm going to do this portrait. I think I'll let the source image dictate it as I go along and paint under (and over) my initial line sketch from two days ago. I'm thinking of doing my very painterly color daub style, which as far as I can tell is my most original style, although it's probably influenced by ...uhm... 70s and 80s styles like those I recall of LeRoy Neiman and the solarized Stuyvesant cigarette ads. Anyhow, I just laid in the undertones which will be smoothed out, painted over and blended later.