Reposting as I’ve done more in the meantime. TLDR: still fighting right angles they hate me 😆

Disappeared for a bit having been beckoned by Marshall’s perspective course homework and my first-ish more serious foray into value studies with Dorian Iten. I decided to apply the practice from those and the head construction into remaking a previous character design. Ready to move on to individual features and hopefully improve those.

Anybody know what brush Stan is using here, please?

Didn’t think much of the interconnectedness of things initially but orthos are helping me make sense of light/cast shadows in Dorian’s course, which is a happy little surprise. :3

I used a brush from Marc Brunet’s free brush set as I found it was the easiest for me to work with. I will say, I think I’m not using my full value scale enough, and there were definitely areas where I could’ve pushed the light and shadow. On top of that, I’m still kind of shy with letting go of hard-edged line art, but I’m hoping as I continue this course I will break that habit. If anyone has any thoughts I would love to hear them! Thanks

I have a bit of an odd question. I do okay with references and I love foreshortening. But after a lot of practice/observation I still cannot draw right angles correctly from imagination and intuition. Is it normal at this point in the course even after tonnes of practice and observation? When I don’t have a box in memory, my boxes slant terribly. It’s the z axes perpendicularities I mess up the most grievously, even though I have many boxes from observation under my belt. With wonky boxes come unstable scaffoldings. Am I expecting too much of myself this early in? As we keep going I imagine stuff will clarify with mileage but this is nagging at me still. I attached some examples.

Here we go :3

I filmed myself doing the exercise. https://youtu.be/_xFSe-Xf06w

This was hard but strangely enthralling;

Values practices here we go, conquering this last fundamentals fear :3