Marc does a great job explaining the planes of the face. I actually got a lot out of the end of the anatomy 2 class in relation to that. The shading itself is fast, its only a few extra minutes of my day. What I'm experiencing if you check those first three heads isn't that I don't understand the planes of the face, it's that I'm failing to implement the proper perspective over the entire face before rendering anything. I was actually rendering each individual element of the face and then trying to tie it all together and it looked like hot garbage. In the Fourth one I sketched out all the elements before rendering anything and it all came together much easier. Another reason I didn't use reference in the first three is that I've taught myself to copy a person's likeness using a reference without these tools and I am trying to push myself to understand the tools themselves without relying on my current skillset before blending them together. A fully rendered head like the one I shared is only taking me like 30 minutes. I've folded that into my daily practice. So I'm doing 45 min gestures, the proportions, and a fully rendered head, and then working on actual work. As far as pretty pictures go, I've actually not had the confidence to work on personal work last week as those three heads really took my confidence down and triggered some imposter syndrome Will definitely check out the videos to see if they have anything I can fold into the daily stuff though. Appreciate the time you took to share them and give feed back, Thank you!

Todays head. More positive progress.

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Today's head practice. Hoping by the time I'm done with the other Term 2 classes I'll have this down. Really like this one though. Gonna shoot for a much more foreshortened one tomorrow and up the challenge rating.

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@mau.wamp Thanks! I'm definitely less confident with hair but I'll try to push it farther on my next one.

Dropping one of my Photoshop 2 Graphic Design assignments. Behold! A... Beholder!

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More heads. These two foreshortened ones really helped me realize a lot of the perspective issues I've had are that because We're starting with a circle when drawing the head, I've been treating the curves of the front of the face as if they are also a circle when they are more elliptical in nature. Especially in these types of poses. Not as stoked about the male, but I feel like the next attempt really shows I'm applying and fixing things based on that knowledge. I also realize that I'm needing to pay attention to the receding perspective on the mouth as well in initial construction. Tried to push the hair value farther today. The references definitely helped me make these connections as I sit and ask why and figure it out.

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@mau.wamp Thank you!

Game / Portfolio Title Assignment

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Just a very messy layout sketch for my 3 point Perspective assignment that I'll be cleaning up this week.

and my final assignment for Photoshop 2. Box art is by me from earlier this year.

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3 point perspective wall for the Perspective 2 Class. I think its pretty much done.

Thank you @mau.wamp @LesleyCarol! I'm thinking I'll have to rotate these perspective drawings into my regular work. It was really challenging and I think I can push it even further in the future. learned so much. Excited to get this final Perspective 2 assignment handled.

Also wanting to drop my progress on the head practice I've been doing daily. They aren't all perfect but I'm super proud of a good number of these.

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@nori thank you!

And that 4 point perspective illustration. Since my anatomy knowledge is lacking I really just tried to emulate what Marc shows on the video and plan on continuing to practice this daily in a much simplified line art version in place of doing the 2d perspective exercise that I have been doing every day after my gestures. Once I finish all anatomy classes I plan to revisit this project to do a portfolio piece as suggested. Using a reference and a grid you can probably really game it and make something AMAZING. Cant wait to try it out.