Portrait Drawing Fundamentals

thanks for pointing that out didnt notice that thanks =)

Just a quick recommendation: Try to apply more perspective to the loomis head. Because iˋve noticed, that some of your construction lines arenˋt actually converging to a vanishing point on the horizon.

Not much better. I guess I just need to fight this tendency to increase the height of the head by making it larger than I think it should be.

Pretty good,You definetly nailed the proportion and volume.I suggest now trying to shade the face and understanding the strcuture of the feature so you can describe the form correctly. (These two series are really good for that https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflflDShjUKH4EfZyf0vuKEuqeqvlV0Qd https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR2KBLDDnZz0pHBiiyrqlOB3FU-W5XX1k)

you are pretty much on your own, I bought his lessons 5 years ago, no one is grading our homework or give us professional feedback

It looks like a strong lay in so far. Are you drawing him from memory?

Looks pretty cool!

I would suggest subscribing to Stephen Bauman's patreon. In my opinion, he demonstrates how to use value to bring out form better than any other artist I've seen. If you draw along with his live streams and follow the same steps he does from beginning to end (with your own reference), you'll make major progress and your patience will improve.

Also challenge of this was my reference was a photo taken of a photo posted on Facebook. So the quality was bad. Had to invent a lot of flesh tones and put in some anatomy that I knew was there but not able to see in the photo. Couldn’t have done it without this course. 👍🏼

I would just spend an hour on 12 references, 5 min each, of just making sure that the placement of the eyes is correct, no rendering. Then, place your work over the reference and see how you did.

Hi Matthew! Nice drawing so far and already looking like her a bit and the head tilt looks great. I think the main things are the thirds of the face measurements and the nose out of alignment with centerline of the head. Those two issues are throwing off the likeness. You did capture a good amount of likeness already from drawing the overall shape of her head well but the middle third of the face is changing her look. In the image I attached you can see this V like red shape from her middle upper lip running through the edge of each nostril. This cupid's angle is a quick way to check for issues in the portrait drawing. You can see that the left side of the cupid's angle is much farther from the eye than the other side is to its eye. So just need to double check the measurements of the thirds of the face and make the nose inline with the rest of the head. I think with those changes it will look like her much more.