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:
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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 ![](https://d1s0ws440m13mk.cloudfront.net/original/4X/3/f/2/3f2aa9c71826c067462060813483999eb2641cde.png)
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! ![:smile: :smile:](https://d1f4appuj81sj4.cloudfront.net//images/emoji/emoji_one/smile.png?v=0)
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