The proportions are helping me. Also it was helpful to put together these composite images with my sketches alongside the references - it shows where I'm making some consistent mistakes: slight problems with tilt or rotation, often making ears too small (not trusting the quarter of the side-head 'slice'), other minor things. I tended to spend around 2-3 minutes on each one, I will try taking a little longer for another set of studies to see if I can avoid some of these mistakes.

This wasn't exactly the assignment but I got going exploring the skull so I'll post it here anyway. I went with a base skull shape and tweaked the proportions of the various features (eye sockets, chin, teeth, cheekbones) to create different skull shapes. Then I drew two faces over each skull shape, using the skull as a base. Looking at it now, I realize I probably could have tweaked the nasal aperture to create more diverse nose shapes but ah well.

Here is my assignment on proportion. I enjoyed doing it, although some parts were a bit tricky.

We’ve got one to 20 and a little extra as well. I couldn’t find a way to show some of the reference images I used but some others are labeled with the number corresponding to the image used. This was actually really quick, like quicker than 5 minutes quick which makes me wonder if I did something wrong with them. Thx for taking your time to read this. :)

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After watching critique

Before critique

Thanks for the fun assignment and the provided reference :). Any suggestions on what I could improve on? Whenever there was time left I started blocking out the skull or started sketching out some subtle facial features

I feel like I’m pretty close on these, but I’m still struggling on seeing what is being said. 1. I feel like I do not see the neck actually doing what we are drawing, I guess I don’t understand where exactly I’m supposed to be looking to determine that. 2. I’m struggling to understand how we are placing the brow line and the jaw line. We are doing 2/3 the circle for the jaw, but it feels like we are really placing the jaw much less than that. I am guessing that even though that’s what I feel like I’m seeing, that it’s not true. 3. I’m having a hard time understanding when we are actually seeing under the jaw vs not. Is it every time we are looking up, is it only if we feel like it’s visible in the reference? In the demos there were some references I was surprised we were drawing under the chin. I don’t know if these questions make sense, but I would love some feedback. Thank you

Hope I'm ready to move on with these samples provided below. Could be probably more refined if I just stretch out the little experience I have in drawing taut, but I do want to jump straight into forms section. So I hope my stuff are solid enough.

I’m into drawing about 10 months and I was struggling at getting the head right, I tried many ways and nothing worked for me… I was at the bring of disappointment when I saw one of your YouTube videos and decided to get your class! Today was my first day and I just want to say a BIG THANK YOU! You are an exceptional teacher and I can’t wait to progress further and keep learning from you! Im super proud of what I accomplished today! (hope you are too) I will keep practicing daily until I get very good and I can draw with your method from memory and with ease!!! @Michael Hampton if you see this I would love to get your constructive criticism, it would mean a lot!

Lesson Sketches. This was really fun to do as well - like the previous one. I'm really enjoying the course so far :)

all done! this one was hard!

Here's about 6 of them i did before watching the critique

Currently doing the gesture course and learning the shape method, so I thought I would revisit the gesture part of this course again so I can add a bit more perspective to the heads. A lot less stressful the second time but I am a bit thrown by the models looking in a different direction to their head tilts. For example when the head is facing upwards but they are looking down. I just have to forget they have a face and imagine the head as a box in perspective. Also, sometimes the faces are so close to the camera that the chin and brow are not parallel but they actually converge to the vanishing point. What should I do in those cases? Ignore the converging lines? Apologies for drawing on the back of oil painted paper.

Here are my sketches for lesson. Sketching out the back of head seem pretty tricky

I’m about to embark on this project but before I do that, I did a head trying to put in everything I learned so far, adding more detail on top of the schematic. A lot of classes jump suddenly in difficulty but this gradual buildup has been incredibly helpful (at least for my brain that requires a fair bit of handholding) and I think it shows in the different stages of practice. Still have a looong way to go but I’ve been struggling a lot with placing the features and it’s nice to get closer and not feel like you’re wildly guessing. That stage where you learned the loomis method but then add features flat on top is so frustrating to go through. so being able to locate the brow line with a system instead of measuring everything part by part has been a game changer.

My 20 heads. I think I'm just really bad at observation, lol.

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