Portrait Drawings Started
3yr
Jake
I'm doing Proko's Portrait course, trying to go in open minded with no assumptions but it's proving tricky.
So far I have just covered the videos on the Loomis method.
Are the drawing exercises meant to be done of random heads (minus features) from your imagination, say, just a featureless head pointing in random directions? That might be where I am going wrong.
I think I find the size/shape of the chin tricky as well. I know my drawings aren't great, they'll need repetition. I would just appreciate being told anything glaringly obvious, with respect to the course that I am following.
Lastly, is it ok if I keep updating this thread as I progress through the course?
Has the "ask for advice/feedback" button been removed? I always clicked that button because I always want feedback. Anyways here is today’s drawing. My self-critique is that I only spent 10 minutes drawing today when it could have been more and that i'm not progressing much with gesture drawing. However it has only been a few sessions :D
This was meant to be the "Visual Memory Game" but as soon as I seen that anvil I remembered the boxes drawn in the perspective drawing lessons and had to try it that way,
Started the Intuitive Perspective part of the course, Think I did a little better than my cylinders attempt.
I don't think i'm very good at visualising shapes in my head, especialy 3D shapes and perspective etc. Either way, not letting it stop me. I've practised elipses enough now and weill move onto the next lesson.
a little advice: try to avoid doing too many lines when drawing, for example the elipses, try doing them in two, three lines, it doesnt matter if they aren't perfect elipses
Ok so we're at the "cylinders and ellipses" part of Proko's drawing course. I'm practising putting the "minor axis" onto the cube, How do you do it. The center points along the edges of the square ends as well are proving tricky.
Some more, I like how these have turned out, much better shape and proportions etc than before
Ok, first, the twirls.
This is a new part of my warmup exercise. It's more visually stimulating than drawing connected curve islands.
Second, the two point perspective. Some of the ones that got close to the horizon line I had some trouble with. The ones I didn't like I marked with a question mark.
What do you make of them?
I think it’s pretty solid work, I would recommend using a ruler for the boxes you struggled with to get the gist of how they look and then try without, but even without the ruler, the boxes look pretty good!
Quick disclaimer, I just started my art journey so my advice might not be the best hehehe, but I believe your doing great!
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1yr
All of the boxes with question marks are challenging because the top planes are so narrow. It happens when you get close to the horizon line.
This best I could line it up.
Looks like you understand the idea. Nice stuff 👍
Gesture drawing is my bane, I find it hard to seperate from "blocking out" (shapes part) that is done earlier tin the drawing fundamentals course. At the second drawing i felt a bit more confident, was only latching onto the "no symmetrical shapes" part of the lesson but I don't think i've got the whole idea.
I'm still here, drawing fell off a littler over the last few weeks or so, I had over area of study, but I have some more work to show you.
There's a bit of life observation in there.
I'm always changing my warmups, hence the swirling galaxy patterns.
Posted out of order.
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1yr
These are still nice simplifications. No detail.
Using basic shapes will help when you try to draw more from memory.
I particularly appreciate how you simplified the rhino head. You went for a more dynamic shape rather than a stagnant one.
Doing the simplifying animals to shapes challenge whilst still trying to remember how to do lines
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1yr
Nice work keeping things simple.
This might be the third time I've done this but I'm enjoying it and seeing the difference between the different methods. It's not a lot for a "days" study but I have other commitments.
