Thanks very much guys.

These are largely just studies for getting the structure of the nose right, I haven't really touched on any colour or light theory yet so I'm just having fun with it to keep my practice interesting. For the shading I was just trying to get something in the region of the references, though I was generally sticking with my own colour choices for them.

I did throw a couple of reds, greens and blues into the shadows but I think maybe they are too low opacity to be noticed! I'll push them a bit harder next time.

Busy few weeks but the Loomis heads are very slowly getting better I think. Couple of miscalculations on this page but it is all starting to sink in where the mistakes are, like curving the form around the face too much on the angled ones, or placing the base of the nose too low. But slow progress is still progress.

Couple of thousand more and I might really have it down!

Great, thanks. I'll watch through the video later. Someone linked his video on eyes elsewhere on the forum recently and I found that to be very good, so hopefully this will be too.

Just as a general point, where would you say my main weakness with the proportions is? I'm planning on going over them in a redraw just to make the corrections that I think are obvious, but I'd be interested in another pointer.

You're probably right about drawing less and taking more time per head whilst relying on references more. All of those are from imagination and I think it's apparent that I still don't have a full grasp of the construction as I keep imagining them with the same mistakes!

I was struggling to identify where the side plane initial circle exactly fell with my previous drawings from reference though so consciously moved away from it to avoid the frustration. Rookie error I think.

Not much time today but wanted to get at least some corrections out of the way so I picked some that looked off and had another go. I feel that they are an improvement, but not quite there yet. I think I need to make the side planes larger.

I have a copy of Bridgman's Constructive Anatomy that I want to analyse the head section for next, then I'll be moving on to proper reference studies. And to go over the linked video above still of course.

Great stuff, thank you so much for taking the time to break things down. I suspected similar issues myself but it's very helpful having someone else also clarify my mistakes. Now that they've been pointed out by other eyes it almost seems obvious when I look back on them where I was making the errors.

Funnily enough I was reading a bit of Bridgman last night before bed and he mentions that the height of the front plane of the face should be one and three quarters its width. That got me thinking at the time "Hang on, I'm pretty sure mine don't look like that."

Thank you pal. I've been through your thread and your work is really impressive, particularly some of the amazing rendering stuff. I have a copy of the Scott Robertson book but haven't dared to jump into it yet. If that's how far you've come since 2019 then I only hope I can make some leaps anywhere near the level you're working at now!

Didn't have much time today so only got one done. But following Mau's advice I slowed right down and used a reference, measuring it out with a traced outline before going onto the full study.

A marked improvement I think, but still needs repeating many times to fine tune and make second nature. Thanks everyone for your help so far. I was definitely trying to run before I could walk by doing too much from imagination and not actually learning from having a reference to hand to observe.

Another daily head.

A few more of these and I think I'll go back to eyes, or make a start on mouths. Just to cycle things around and keep it fresh.

Thanks pal.

Busy few days with work so I decided to have a bit of fun and paint out the latest head structure practice. It's a bit messy because I haven't really practiced a lot of areas like hair, ears or lips before; but it was nice to do a bit of shading again. I can't help myself but add colour to stuff usually.

The paint over was with the observational line art which I've copied and shrunk down, as that was the main focus of the exercise really. In hindsight I think I moved her hairline too high so she's got a bit of an egg head look!

One more before I move onto ears, mouths and eyes.

The hair coverage made this one a bit trickier. The side planes could almost certainly be a lot narrower I think.

I may paint this one out too just for fun and a bit of extra practice getting values right, I think I probably could have pushed the values on the last one a bit further.

I've had my fun, back to proper studying now.

Been a little busy lately with holidays and coming back to a mountain of work, so art fell by the wayside a little.

Still plugging away with term 2 exercises but also decided to watch the colour and light tutorial in term 4 for a change of pace.

I was wondering how much people actually rely on drawing out the perspective lines to plot out shadows like Marc shows in the tutorial when applying shadows to actual pieces. I get the theory, but it is quite a long winded process for more complex shapes. The sphere in particular was quite tedious to work out, I can't imagine doing that all the time when working on a piece!

Anyway, some of my perspective lines are slightly off but I was more concerned with just understanding the theory behind what I was doing more than having perfectly accurate lines. It's a start for my first run through the exercise.

Woops, just as I uploaded I spotted a mistake with a missing section of shadow on the arch!

Random 3 point perspective practice scene. Not really sure where I was going with it, just got carried away.

Decided to sketch along to the perspective 2 homework task. It's pretty rough but I didn't feel like putting details in.

Something went very wrong to the right side of the staircase when I drew it in, but I can't quite put my finger on it. It throws the look for the entire door off.

One more 3 point perspective doodle before moving back to learning anatomy.

Critiques welcome.