Oh wow, those practices are paying off. You are starting to get the volumes well. I'd still start with the main line of action for a better flow. I like how you can pull off these with such precise strokes.

@hyoi Thank you! It's actually the first time I'm doing it for this long. I guess it's a mix of not having a lot else to do right now and knowing that I'm going to do it for only a month (although I might continue anyway XD)

@WeirdOwl Thank you! I always freak out when I realize how short 30 seconds is, so I end up always forgetting to draw the line of action :joy:

So here's week 3. I tried a different brush and I'm not sure I quite liked it for this purpose, but I stuck with it for the week anyway. I might go back to the previous one I used for this week.

Day 15

Day 16

Day 17

Day 18

Day 19

Day 20

Day 21

Beginning of the week versus end of the week. Not much difference I'd say.

Sooooo, I decided to go left handed this week. Let's how that goes :sweat_smile:

Day 22

18 days later

That is very impressive for left hand. I'm lucky if I can get a line in the direction I want with left hand. Are you practicing in case right hand goes out of commission? :joy:

1 month later

I guess it's not too terrible, haha! You should give it a shot though, maybe you'll be pleasantly surprised.

That or so that I can work twice as fast using my two hands at the same time :joy:

So I have not posted here in quite a while. I don't have any artschool stuff to share now, although I'd like to get back to that. But I have this painting I finished 2 days ago to show, so might as well post it here.

Veuve (meaning widow in french)- 20''x16'' acrylics on canvas

I can't get one hand to coordinate with the brain. Don't ask too much :sweat_smile:
And that is one awesome creepy painting. I know some people who would absolutely love this.

3 months later

I'm quite a bit late, but thank you @WeirdOwl and @Julia_J. And thank you too @HANDRO! It was indeed from imagination. I matched a few concepts and ideas that I felt work together to create it. I did end up making a small paper maquette to help me a bit with the lighting.

So I started again with Artschool. Not from the beginning, but with the anatomy of the head. I had a few more exercises I did digitally where I did the structure of various faces and added the fat pads on top based from photos, but they might have been lost in the ether now :laughing:


And then I started sketching one from imagination and it turned to this 😆

I have an idea for an illustration based from it which is nice!

Cool concept! Can't wait for the illustration :smile:

Here are a few head construction sketches

Those are really solid heads right there! Great, I love how accurately you defined the major planes even in difficult and foreshortened angles! :smile: