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@willyjohn
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Here is my submission for the assignment. I usually do multiple attempts, but I had difficulty finding references that I liked online with the exception of the one I used. Please let me know what should be improved.
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I really like it but I feel that the hair isn't as curly as the reference, but amazing drawing
@willyjohn
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Here is my submission for the Ears assignment. Please share any feedback you have!
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Hi @willyjohn, nice studies! Nice job organizing the values. My favorite is the first drawing. I really like how you used that grey tone to show the plane change at the antihelix. It makes the ear feel 3D. I'll do my best to help you further:
Apart from these, I also looked through some of you previous drawings and I really think you would benefit from revisiting the gesture quicksketch exercise and practicing drawing boxes and cylinders. Your ear drawings shows understanding of anatomy but show a lack of form and rhythmical lines. Practicing gesture drawings can give you that rhythm and drawing boxes and cylinders will help you with form.
Feel free to tag me (@Jesper Axelsson) if you choose to revisit the exercises. Feedback is super important :)
Some tips if you choose to revisit:
- I attached an image with some practice tips that really helped me when I took the figure drawing course. Hopefully they could be useful to you too :)
- Practice drawing from your shoulder. It is explained in this video How to Hold and Control Your Pencil. Gesture quicksketches are a great place to practice this, since the pressure is low and you always have a new attempt waiting in a minute.
Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!
@willyjohn
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Here is my work for the assignment with references. Any and all feedback is appreciated!
These 2 free videos from Proko about shading a drawing helped me and should help explain how to get the lips to look more 3 dimensional and less flat: https://youtu.be/LrHfrncvODQ and https://youtu.be/-dqGkHWC5IU
@willyjohn
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Here is my work for the nose assignment with references. Please let me know what you think!
@willyjohn
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Here are some drawings of some eyes I did. One thing I had trouble with the most were the eyelashes as I couldn't made them blurry and one reference I had contained individual lashes. I also had trouble shading the eye as it was difficult to distingush tones since my references were in color. If you have any advice/resources/tips/etc. that could help me in this or other situations, please share them with me.
Really focus on your shapes. They don’t match the reverence well. And clump your eye lashes together. That will be more aesthetically pleasing.
@willyjohn
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Here is my work for the Extreme Angles assignment. I decided to "box" some of the heads to make perspective a little bit easier. Please let me know how I can improve!
Good job taking on this difficult assignment, the human head in perspective is one of the most difficult things to draw, in my opinion.
Line quality - I would suggest keeping all of your lines a bit lighter, you don't need to press down so hard or make such thick marks on the page. It looks a bit sloppy. You can use your eraser to clean up lines that get away from you (too thick; not quite in the right spot; etc.). Try not to have 'sketchy' or 'feathery' finished lines either (e.g., the top of #3's head). Whether or not your linework is exactly 'correct' anatomically, having a cleaner drawing will make it much more pleasing to the eye.
Proportions - #1 and #5 have necks that are too thin, whereas #2-4 are too thick. Perhaps try practicing visual measuring techniques that you can use to double check your work. You can also size up the reference image and put your sketch over the top of your computer screen. Unless you're using incredibly thick paper, you should be able to see the enough of the original through your drawing to gauge how accurate it is.
Perspective - I think you're also struggling with foreshortening. While you are getting the angles and shapes fairly accurate, all of the faces appear to have a weird, stretched out feeling to them. Our brains have a natural tendency to 'flatten' poses out, whether perspective or gesture drawing. This means that we have an innate tendency to try and draw anything in a normal or neutral pose, hence the subconscious stretching of faces when we try to draw at extreme angles (trying to make them closer to a size our brain knows is 'normal'). One thing you can do to combat this, and to practice exaggeration, is to intentionally exaggerate the foreshortening much more than is realistic. For example, if a pose is from below so someone's feet look larger than their head, you'd exaggerate by giving them GIANT feet and a head the size of a speck. It can be good practice just to get you seeing and thinking about foreshortening better.
I hope this helps! Keep practicing and you'll get better every day :)
How are you? I´m not sure if this was posted minutes or months ago. I see a struggle with convincingly making a sphere and attaching a plane for the face. What will help you is the youtube videos by Stan, where he shows the way Perspective applies to the head. It took me MONTHS to get Perspective into my subconscious BUT there are tonnes of good books on it you can download, preferrably I would recommend Marshall Vandruff and his old perspective courses as well as Ernesto Wattson and his perspective made easy books. With these fundamentals down you will have a MUCH MUCH easier time tackling something as complex as the human face. Don´t be afraid to practice at least an hour a day and give it a week or two to start really feeling it! Best of luck!!!
@willyjohn
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2yr
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Here are my Loomis Head drawings from the front. Please let me know what you think!
@willyjohn
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Hey everyone! I've decided to draw some side view heads for this assignment. However, I have decided to add facial features after looking at other student's submissions even though I have not reached that portion of the course just yet. I have attached reference images to make critiquing easier. Any and all feedback is welcome!
@willyjohn
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Hello! I've decided to draw a variety of Loomis Heads as a good starting point for the rest of the course. Please let know how I can improve as I'm not that experienced in drawing the head.
Hello, good start on the Loomis heads. I put of heads for the longest time, so hats off to you. My biggest critique is the perspective of the heads. I've attached some images to try and explain what I mean.
But other than that, most heads seem a little to long. I'm not sure if you're using references, but starting with some and making them the average thirds between brow, nose, and chin would be where I'd go from here.
Other than that, picture 3 lookin' clean. Keep it up.
Respond if you have questions.
- Dwight
These are great exercises to always do before a drawing session. I use what is in this video as well as some influences from drawabox.com as my warmup sessions. https://chrisbeaven.com/snowing-in-the-mountains/
I haven't done them in a while because I'm painting now but I know I'm getting rusty and need to get back into it.
This is the kind of thing that always needs some practice so try and make it your own and make it part of your daily practice. Keep going!
