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The assignment for this project is divided into two parts:
Development Drawings:
- Develop five heads based on your prior drawings that you are satisfied with.
- Concentrate on the features and details such as the tilt of the eye, the shape of the nose, and the form of the lips. Use these drawings to explore and refine the facial features.
New Drawings:
- Create five brand new head drawings from scratch.
- Work through the entire workflow from the initial sketch to detailing the soft tissue forms around the features like the lips.
This approach allows you to refine your skills both by developing existing works and by creating new ones, focusing on detailed facial features.
Found time to practice some more. This is definitely a good exercise. Still kind of struggling with the ambient lighting though. All the photos on line-of-action have this kind of lighting, and it's just hard to pick up on subtle differences. Knowing the surfaces helps though. Hair is still tough. Something else I learned from these drawings is, I've always found it hard to find the bottom or top planes of the inner eye lids. But after drawing that one guy without, I noticed that it does look very flat. So it's always there, and it definitely is better to draw it in. I think eyelashes hide it, so that's why I never noticed until now.
I tried drawing someone following the steps. I tried using less lines and tried keeping the ones that would show me the surface and how to render the skin. It was tough, but it was a really good exercise, and I feel like I understand the process better. Some things I noticed was that it's really difficult to render a face under ambient light, and that the eye I drew is a little larger than it actually is. Also hair is tough.
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14d
Very nice!
Here's 10 from scratch (finally). I've got along way to go but have certainly found the course rewarding so a big thanks for that
hello again! i uploaded my attempts of drawing faces right after finishing the course a year or so ago. (https://www.proko.com/s/dqKA) since then i haven't stopped trying to get better: i'd like to think there is some improvement to be noticed. i still struggle, and make ton of mistakes (second face here is rather questionable...), but i came here to say that i don't think i could have ever gotten to this point without this course, so thank you again, Mr Hampton!
(third one was a style study of disco elysium!)
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1mo
Awesome! Thanks for sharing!
First five are continuations and last are from scratch. Not sure how I managed to change the ethnicity of number 8. Struggled a bit with number 9.
This was a fantastic course, and I feel I have the fundamentals of head construction down now :D
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3mo
Fantastic work, Jason!
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3mo
Amazing work!
Just wanted to share my progress. Looking better than before I think but they still look dead. Something about their eyes maybe? Idk
Here are my five final drawings for this lesson. I'm pretty happy with how things are coming together and all I've learned in this class. I did do a lot of extra practice of the eight-step forms in between lessons, probably a few score of them from lots of different references. I definitely like this model better than the basic Loomis head. I also found I needed to break out and really focus on each feature for awhile - well, eyes and noses at least, they are still the most challenging but I filled a few sketchbook pages of each of them. There are little nuances I'm discovering like when the model head proportions need to be tweaked and the big variety of features and expressions.
i havent had a lot of time lately but i'll try to finish this, here is #5 & #4 from the reference images. i tried to make it with as few construction lines as possible but that messed up the ear which i tried to correct on the first image but i forgot to do it on the second image. definitely need to work on noses & mouths. i will just add the other 8 as comments to this post as i can do them.
redo of reference#2 i deleted the other one because the image wouldn't show up. but it was much worse than this one i think.
accidentally made the mouth too wide while i was distrscted at work, placed the mouth too low and tried to fix it, had trouble making the face look young enough as well but here is #3 from the reference pack
This course has been so useful! Overall I've definitely improved doing these assignments, still proportional issues but I've been trying to really understand and show the form best I can (except in the portrait in my second photo, no idea what happened there).
I think the lips have been the most challenging to show them wrapping across the form without resorting to using tone, so I might need to practice simplifying them more to nail that overarching curve around the denture sphere before adding on more complexity? Also trying to know how the form of the lips changes when the angle doesn't show one corner of the mouth is real tricky, gotta observe and practice some more!
Thanks for the course Michael, your teaching style really gels with how I learn so I might check out the gesture course next!
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6mo
Great studies! So glad to hear the course was useful!
I decided to take some time during a lunch break to draw these. I’m honestly perplexed, struggling to see the layer of fat under the skin and pinpointing where they should be marked. I remember you mentioned certain artists you take inspiration from. Do you have any other suggestions on how to learn the facial fat Mr. Hampton or how to find them on the face? @Michael Hampton
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6mo
Excellent studies! Hmm, maybe check out the Anatomy 4 Sculptor's book on facial anatomy. They have some nice diagrams of the fat in there.
Likeness is not achieved, far form it. Trying to improve proportions as well as features. Longway to go :-)
Any critique is welcome!
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7mo
Looking good! Likeness will come, if just keep doing what you're doing. Focus on form and getting those skull and feature planes in.
Wow, made it to the end! Thank you @Michael Hampton for a great course.
The first 5 images are just random photos I practiced on, the last 3 are from the reference set on here. Would love some feedback, I feel like one thing I'm doing wrong is making things feel like they are wrapping, I also feel like I'm struggling with the nose a lot.
finally finished the course.I think i need I still need to improve on laying the facial features on to the construction, how to draw hair, and likeness. I would greatly appreciate any critiques. thank you so much for making the course.
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8mo
Nice work! Congratulations on finishing!
Phew, that was really hard. Here are my 10 drawings. I am proud of how I did but have a lot of improvement needed to make the facial features more accurate and frankly better.
Thanks @Michael Hampton for the fantastic course. I really enjoy your teaching style. You are one of the best teachers to explain what and why you are doing something while you demonstrate it. I have bought all of your courses on Proko and will definitely buy anything else you create.
Any critiques or suggestions for improvements on my drawings would be greatly appreciated.
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8mo
Nice job, Ben! Congrats on finishing the course! I think you got all of the structural elements of the skull and features down nicely. Only thing that sticks out is the proportions of the features. In some of the more front facing views the features seem a little stretched out. Maybe try double checking the length of your jaw or the halves and thirds? Again, congrats.
10 head drawings from scratch. I feel like I'm getting the 3D form down okay but I still struggle a lot with the eyes and some of the proportions. I also struggle with getting down the likeness too, I never feel like it looks anything close to the reference.
Good work so far! I can see the 3D construction of the head underneath your drawings. It does seem when it comes to the eyes the sort of 3d construction is going away. You are still simplifying them to the sort of "symbol" of eyes that we have in our minds, so they look flat. Drawing spheres and then wrapping the eyelids around those spheres can help.
As far as likeness goes that's all about the proportions. You'll have to start deviating from the "standard head" proportions in order to start getting likenesses. So you'll have to train your eye to notice the differences in the refernce faces like: distance between the eyes, width of the head, distance from eyes to the bottom of the nose, distance from bottom of nose to the mouth, distance from bottom of the lip to bottom of the chin, jaw angles, etc.
Basically once you learn the "standard" proportions that gives you the freedom to break them and start achieving likeness.
Construction, construction, construction. I don't see any. Including it in your studies would help you improve.
I've learned a lot from this class. Your method and style of teaching is what has worked for me in my search for a drawing teacher. You are a blessing in the art industry.
Hi Everyone!
Just finished the assignment, I actually just did these 8 from scratch.
i know they are far from perfect so any advice or feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance 🙏🏽
