First image is from imagination, second one from reference. I feel like I have a much better mental image of the skull.

skulls assignment!!

the first 3 are from refernce, the last 2 are from imagination

Skull studies + from memory skull studies (fixed 8-9-10 by looking back at my refs) :/

Skulls!

Top 5 skulls in the 1st image are from reference and the other 10 were invented.

I was a bit rushed here. Next time, I should take a bit more time to develop the skulls further.

Pain

Got burnt out part way though the 15 invented skulls, so I took some time away and things went better. All in all, lots of practice juggling the hard brush, pressure opacity, and air brush. And I'm happy with how these are turning out especially considering my initial forays into digital painting.

Here's my skulls! I think I got decent at rendering the planes and overall forms but I still have a lot to learn with all the little anatomical details and the organic shapes I also tried doing the hard mode challenge but I'm far too inefficient to do it under 5 minutes and struggled even doing it in 10. I think I'll come back to it when I'm a little more efficient/better at simplifying

2nd time doing the course. Spent a LOT of time studying the planes of the skull more in-depth. Here are the resources I used: Proko Skull: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/male-skull-1e54622b84ab46fd9f4518c47fa60929 Skull Planar: https://sketchfab.com/models/3c85221828f64408b8dd23022319159c/embed?autostart=1

2023/6/22. Good afternoon everybody. Here's my assignment for this section. Thanks.

need to come back and render these but had a lot of difficulty with the form, though i think there's been a little improvement

2023/6/11. Good evening, everybody. Here's my first assignment for this chapter. Thanks.

here are all my submission for this assignment

my skulls, feel free to critique

And yet another assignment completed! Onward to the next lesson. This is getting fun XD

For anybody having trouble like me or who haven't started yet, I recommend actually moving onto the next lesson and watching all the videos in "Skulls Without Reference." Ahmed goes over more in the next lesson about building the skull. Watch all those vids and then come back to do this lesson, don't skip this. You got this. Also check out 3D models of skulls online. There are some you can move around right in your browser. Proko has these models but they're apart of the portrait fundamentals course... not sure if they're unlocked free of charge but do go on the course page to see. Helps with understanding forms