My first 1.5 portraits and some mouths! Honestly the portrait in the top left was just a nose study but then I just decided to throw in an eye and a mouth for fun. I didn’t actually construct the face but the proportions seem more or less correct (?) The one in the bottom right was a (slightly rushed) portrait that I made at 1 AM. Got lazy with the hair. Proportions are right (I think) but I did liquify it a bit and that could have hurt them. Sorry about the low quality photo, I drew everything super tiny so my I had to take a screenshot D:

As always, please give me criticism if there’s anything off! (Especially because if I keep drawing faces incorrectly that will not bode well for my future art)

WIP. Realism is annoying. Studying a grayscale picture and trying to turn it into a portrait w/ color. Harder that it looked for sure. I’ll probably regress into a more semi-realism portrait style after I figure out how to draw everything realistically. I have no idea what I’m doing I’m just throwing color everywhere and hoping it looks good (?) so any critiques are much appreciated

Thanks, I'll look at that! Yeah, I realized halfway through that my shadows were not saturated enough and the colors were getting muddy but didn't really know how to get the right colors

oh my god i’m so tempted to just go back to just eyeballing facial proportions but i’m resisting the temptation until i nail the loomis method either way here’s some more nose practice. i’m getting used to them now...

I feel like I’m missing out on some sort of basic knowledge right now. Or is it just lack of practice?

STILL, HOW ARE PEOPLE ABLE TO DO THESE PROPERLY AND SO WELL

Somehow if I just eyeball everything the face ends up looking a lot better than if I do the loomis method...
Either way I think I was in desperate need of a value study to improve my planes so I did one. Used three values instead of 2 to at least try to get some sort of life into the drawing. Ignore the teeth I’m tired and have lots of homework and didn’t feel like correcting it.

painnnnn i tried to paint without zooming in, actually helped me better understand facial planes. still needs work but it’s kinda inaccurate bc i couldn’t fix the tiny mistakes. i’ll prolly stop posting individual practices and compile them in one img from now on. the chin is really bad, i know

If you know who this is, you know why I drew it. Quick-ish stylized portrait, had lots of fun playing with colors. Didn’t really know what I was doing but pretty okay with the final result

Already despise some of my previous work on this thread, which I guess either shows improvement or simply more awareness of the problems. Anyways here’s some 5 minute mouths from the Sinix anatomy lesson. I don’t think I’m ever going to render mouths with a lot of detail so I decided to just have fun with choosing wild colors and trying to pull it off. They’re super rushed and messy but they look like mouths at least haha

(edit: should clarify that the color choice isn’t super wild for the second one but for the first one I threw in a ton of over saturated colors and then tried blending it to add some more life to the drawing.)

and I thought Marc was lying when he said that gestures would improve over time... they’re not perfect but they’re better than the abominations I had earlier This was like day 35(?)ish of gesture drawing so it’s nice to see some improvement — although I’m still struggling a bit with capturing the gestures in 30s.

(also ignore the anatomically incorrect skull and that second 5 min gesture — i literally spent like a minute trying to understand how the model kept her balance and then gave up and drew it lol)

edit: fixed blurry image

drew all of these in my calculus class lol (still have a perfect score in the class, so I’m taking this as a win). #1 was drawn when I started studies (around 2 weeks ago?) #2 one week ago and the #3 this afternoon. Based off of Sinix’s anatomy quick tips — they’re so good and he’s so amazing!

I’m very proud of the third one, I drew it without a reference AND IT STILL LOOKS LIKE AN EYE. That’s my excuse for the really boring and messy colors — I was too busy trying to flesh out plane changes to realize my colors were turning into a messy gray blob. I think the eyelashes are wrong but I accidentally drew them on the same layer as the skin (nice job, me). Nowhere near as good as Vonschlippe’s eye studies buuuuuuuuut that’s why I’ve gotta stay practicing

Any sort of criticism or feedback would be amazing! — especially on the third one — I think that one is a testament to whether I understood all of the intricacies that go on with an eye, since I drew it from imagination and also because the first two are slightly outdated

(Hopefully this wasn’t too long or anything, I realllllly don’t know how to write forum posts)

Oh, good point! I’ll make sure to edit these studies and try to add that. Thanks for the advice

Edit: quick 5 minute tired asf paint-over extremely messy and I accidentally painted over the eyelid crease lol

(this was all one layer so it kinda got messy but now there’s a sense of three-dimensionality and it looks normal from afar, so it might be fine on a portrait lol)