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This course teaches students to draw realistic human heads, from basic structure to detailed features, using Loomis-inspired techniques.
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Practice incorporating proportional measurements into your existing drawings, focusing on brow-to-chin distances and dividing the face into halves and thirds. Then, create 20 new drawings, spending about 5 minutes on each, applying all five steps you've learned.
This time limit helps maintain focus, but it's flexible if needed. The goal is to reinforce good habits and avoid overthinking or underdoing your work.
We have 20 new reference images that you can use in the downloads section as well!
My take on the assignment. Pretty happy with how they turned out, I took about 10 mins for each instead of the 5 cause I was vibin. Adding hard angles to the skull was a big help for me and I feel like I actually started to understand the planes a bit better. Couldn't resist putting some eyes on them either.
I have the same doubt, i feel i still stuggle doing these.
Should i really go further on the course or should i hold and practice these? i really dont know
Hi @Michael Hampton ! I did this assignment, watched the critiques, reviewed it again, checked with flipped canvas and I can't spot my errors anymore. Could please mention some attention points, so I can prepare myself for the next stage?
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3mo
I think you should move on to the next steps. Everything here looks good.
Here are the new 20 that were provided. I feel some of these had some very subtle glances that made you think a bit more about them. Please provide any feedback that anyone thinks would be helpful. Thanks! @Michael Hampton this class thus far has been very helpful to me, thanks for the information!
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4mo
Great studies! Very glad to hear it has been helpful!
I’m going to send the original 20 from our first assignment. Numbered as in the file provided. I will also send the new 20 also in my next post.
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.
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6mo
Great work!
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.
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8mo
Really nice work!!
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. :)
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
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9mo
Nice starts! Have you watched the Critique Video yet? I think there's small things going on that watching might help with.
