@daceronine thank you so much!! yeah I hope to get a better grasp once I get to the terms that cover the colour and values
The dark creatures will be haunting your dream next whoooooo~
@mitsuki-youko thank youuu!! 🥹
@patrycja.lerch thanks! 🥹
8 days later
@daceronine thank you so much!! yeah I hope to get a better grasp once I get to the terms that cover the colour and values
The dark creatures will be haunting your dream next whoooooo~
@mitsuki-youko thank youuu!! 🥹
@patrycja.lerch thanks! 🥹
I took a bit of a break from studies, but I am back at it and started to move on to the anatomy term two part!
But first of my last gesture drawings session from a bit ago
And with the anatomy session for the head I started out with the practice of drawing the spheres for the heads + symmetry lines and kind of decided to keep building on them as the lesson progressed
It felt a bit weird actually break down and measure the distances and build the right angles with the boxes after mostly winging it until now XD weird, but in a good way that I finally start to understand thing better. At the end of the lesion my heads looked like this:
And in the end I put it all together with the head demo that Marc also showed. I ended up using his base guides for the head from his demo and put in all the facial features + shading it. Next time I’ll try to shade more of the ones I drew from.
Really happy with how the rendering turned out tbh!
1 month later
it's been a bit more than a month, I got lazy to update here XD
But I've been productive! Almost daily practice of gestures, anatomy and proportions have gotten easier to keep in check! Also in cooperated timed head studies as well! Compilation of the last month:
a bit of a closeup of my last 4 days of practice, reducing the amount of gestures to get some more head studies in, so far it works quite well! Some days are better than others tho xD
Also separated progress of drawing the head. After my last post I took a lot of refs and drew in the facial features according to marcs lesson, beneath that is a giant training session I did shortly after- 2min per head, trying to get as much practice in as possible and get comfortable. First used the heads that the Quickpose site provided, but I didn't like the small amount of variation of faces, so I created my own collection with portraits from interest and used those for times practices. About 2 weeks ago I chose to give myself more time, ending up with 3min per head, and that is the sweet spot for me.
4 days ago I found the YouTube channel Keycem and his VOD's on drawing heads, using a box and envisioning the skeleton underneath in perspective. I draw along for a bit, and it started to click more on why the facial features are where they are and why my studies looked off before. So I started to make my 3 min practice and then draw the skeleton on top of it without a time limit. Afterward checking with a 3D model of a skull and improve the previously sketched on skull to fit the skull ref the lesson was what I needed in cooperation with Marc's lesson on it
3 days in, I already see a lot of results, and it's gotten more intuitive! Highly recommend it as practice!
@daceronine a bit late, but oh well XD
thanks for the feedback!
looking back at it a month later I can see that too-, felt really lost with more extreme perspectives, since it wasn't quite part of the lesson if I remember right. I haven't checked out the other anatomy lessons yet, so I don't know if it will be part of those in more detail- hope it is!
@mitsuki-youko also late, but thank you as well for your feedback! yeah, I see what you mean about the eye, feel like I should redo the head and shading to fix that
3 weeks ago I also continued to work on an illustration which I had started in March. During the rendering process I ended up changing the face so many times because of the new knowledge I gained after Marc's lesson on the face xD The curse of improving while working on older works
It took a bit of time, but I am glad I put the work in to make it look good!
This is the finished piece, in the end I am quite happy with how it turned out!
also closeup of the face!
Yo that looks GREAT! Really nice lighting and detail all around!
It's good you found a method that works for you. I think we all feel comofortable with different ways of constructing faces at different angles, just matter of trying and experimenting with different techs. Personally I use the 3D heads from CSP for basic angles, references for particular ones, or just outright photos I take for more complex ones.
I can see the skull/box method working well from imagination. Should try it out to see how it works.
Wow scrolling through your post history, I saw the improvement starting with your gestures right away. The volume of work you're doing is paying off!!
I also really like the gritty watercolor-paper texture you added to your last illustration combined with the slight blur, it really gives it like a sense of depth/space if that makes sense.
Awesome work and keep it up!!
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