Tom
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Tom
6d
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Study of skull drawing my way
I’ve recently been working and studying perspective, and my last work that I posted showed a landscape painting with a bakery set into the environment. After finishing that project, I returned to drawing the human skull. It’s an ongoing project, but the idea behind it is to make a proper study of the human skull and its anatomy — to understand proportions and shapes, and then boil them down into a simpler construction. I’ve started creating a guide on how to build the human skull from basic shapes. This led me to study the mechanics of the skull — how the eye sockets are constructed, the width of the dental arch, and how each part relates to the others. The goal here is to learn deeply, and then have this knowledge as a reference in the back of my mind. That way, it becomes a solid foundation for drawing other skulls more freely, and it also makes the process more fun. The next stage of this project will be to consider yin and yang influences in human skulls — beyond just shapes, silhouettes, and likeness. This is an element I’ve never seen addressed in any skull studies so far, and I believe it can add a new layer of understanding and expression that ties anatomy to rhythm, character, and balance. So, here is what I’ve done so far. I hope it can be helpful to you too. Let me know if you have any feedback or if there’s anything you’d like to add — I’d be more than happy to hear your thoughts. Thank you very much!
pell
It looks nice. It would make a great poster. My main critique is that the little building seems dwarfed by the background. I think it's mostly because the building and other foreground objects could probably use darker values to stand out more (or conversely, darken the background).
Tom
27d
Hi Pell. Thank you very much for your contributions and critic. It is very high valued and appreciated! it helped to push this work further. Thank you. Any more comments? Please do not hesitate… I definitely learnt here new insight. But it needs way more improvement and grip overal. Recent version:
Melanie Scearce
Thanks for sharing this painting with us, @Tom! Really cool backstory and I like the message. It sounds like an awesome experience! Given what you intend to do with this image, I have a couple of recommendations. First of all, I love how you've painted this scene and your perspective looks great. Since this could potentially be used as marketing or advertising material, I think showcasing the building and the actions within and around it would be top of the hierarchy in terms of importance. The building felt a bit small to me and seemed to be competing with the really beautiful scenery in the background. Increasing the size of the building not only helps you to see the detail inside, but gives that part of the image more visual weight, positioning it higher in hierarchy over the background. Cropping the pallet guy's activities a bit will implicate the class going on inside as the focal point. While he's still an important element, the viewer knows this is really about the class. You could also play with the saturation in the foreground. Increasing it would help bring life to the activities going on and also emphasize the atmospheric perspective. You can also do this by further decreasing the saturation in the background and increasing the blurring on some elements. Hope that is useful to you. Have fun painting 😁
Tom
29d
Oh, thank you so much for your thoughtful and detailed message—it's always such a joy to receive that kind of response. I truly appreciate the time and care you put into it. Your enthusiasm for art really shines through! You're absolutely right in your observations. I've been studying perspective for a while now, focusing on structure and precision. But recently, I've stepped into a whole new challenge—painting. With thousands of brushes in my Krita library and more layers than I can count, I’ve realized that perspective alone isn’t enough. Painting is a different world entirely. Without taking the time to study and approach it step by step, it's easy to fall into just randomly throwing brushes onto the canvas—which, honestly, is exactly what I did at first, and I ended up wasting a lot of time.
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1mo
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Struggling with this painting
Hello everyone, I'd like to share a project I've been working on and would really appreciate your feedback — any thoughts, tips, or feelings you get from the work. Let me give you a bit of background. I work at an organic store and farm. A few years ago, one of my colleagues followed her dream and became a baker. She started her own sourdough bread business, baking right next to our shop. Our boss even built a small bakery space with a large oven attached to the building. The breads were made fresh daily, using flour from our own homegrown wheat. Unfortunately, after a few years she stopped baking, and the bakery space stayed empty for a while. Recently, though, we started using it for a new project: monthly cooking classes focused on plant-based and vegan recipes. The idea is to promote health and sustainability while using high-quality products from our shop. It’s both educational and inspiring for our customers. As someone who's always been proud to be part of this idea, I wanted to express it through my art. So I started drawing the building, imagining how it could be used for prints, flyers — something useful, cool, and beautiful. In the artwork, I’m trying to capture a mix of nature, machinery, wooden pallets, and teaching. This is what I’ve created so far. It turned out into challenge my actual painting skills. And I-found myself struggling. I would like to postpone my self critic for now I’d really love to hear your thoughts first😑🙂 — anything that comes to your mind! Thank you so much!
Nitzani
Could be someone's tattoo Thank you for sharing!
Tom
3mo
That’ s true. Yeah. Could be. Thanks 👍
Tom
Here I would like to add also a piece that was made traditional.
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3mo
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Compass
Hi Guys! Let me please share with you my recent artwork that I was pleasantly excited about. I am planning to post,,behind- the- content phase as well (will be found on my website), because that is, what is by my opinion, the most interesting part of creating any art. This work has especially brought me to places where I felt being back in school. I have been studying both- construction, planning, executing ideas, designing and many other aspects of bringing this piece to life, but also the sensible art of decisions taking- or also not taking in our daily lives! How much is that influence by adjusting and going with nature. Therefore we need to adjust and find the balance. There is no time to be wasted. And so why not put sensible incomes in our deeds/ art? That I think matters the most! So this artwork is a compass 🧭 (a reminder). An orientation towards health. A sensible piece of following nature and adjusting to nature, instead of going against it. As a compass this has arrows too, yet five. Instead of four! And this compass cannot be deflected by any magnet. It always changes and that never changes. Showing us energy going up during the spring until it reaches the peak- summer- then it goes down to late summer and all animals start to collect food and prepare for autumn- arrows going to the center. And then winter comes. Self reflection moment, hibernation time. This represents the daily cycle as well. Morning, noon, late noon, evening and night 😴 I hope it will inspire you. 🫡🙂
Tom
It is kind of temptation, you know… just to start up blender, and you have it accurate and fast! So yeah! Why to spend whole morning? Days? And trying to figure it out, while we have no time already?!😲🤔 I wanted to know. I wanted to understand. So I took all what I knew and all your feedbacks I have got and together with a third- and maybe the most Important ingredient- -patient- left to an another adventure! To solve this business of a tilted perfect cube, drawn traditionally and free hand! Let me share with you my notes from this adventure and the same drawing, I made earlier in blender- but now- free hand👍🥳
Melanie Scearce
This is a really cool idea! You can use ellipses to rotate this cube. If you can draw an ellipse and a cylinder in perspective, you can rotate any cube any how because the corners will always rotate along the ellipse. Lines of the cube will never enter the boundaries of the inner circle. This links to the ellipses/cylinders video for a refresh: https://www.proko.com/course-lesson/how-to-draw-cylinders-and-ellipses/comments
Tom
4mo
This drawing is made based on blender construction. 100% accurate and it took just a 4' 😮😲 which is great. But! It have not brought me more insight, yet! The goal here, is to be able to do it without it! And That’ s the whole point. It is a great tool. But I want to first understand. I am going to use this as a further study object. And to find out, how to be able construct it as same accurate.
Tom
Ok. Let me share with you my recent artwork. An amazing experience that has come from studying a Chinese cultural and their approach to life through observing a nature that resulted in many of theirs tools. One of them is their astrology- worth to study! Extremely interesting topic and study case! That can be useful in our lives. Well that is topic not for now- what I have done, was turning this study Into an artwork.and where I started to sense problems, was- when I supposed to tilt a perfect cube in perspective that I made. Well! Not the difficult first part: one vanishing point stays the same. In this case- on demonstration below- what I mean. Other sets of lines going to an opposite side on the horizon line is also not difficult to determine- just very simple- how much I want to have a new cube tilted. No problem. But! What is going to happen with last set of lines? Those who are going down? Is it 45 degree? 52 degree? Where is that vp? In relationship to the rest of the vanishing points? You may say- use 3d program. Yeah, sure! But for know- I want to understand. Is there any measuring method that can be applied? Thank you very much.
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