1 month later

Hello forum community , back again with another post. I'm neck deep into term 2 and have watched everything except the perspective 2 video. I've been taking my time diving and studying different head anatomy , shading techniques as well the usual sketching and gesture.
Unfortunatly I've spent a lot of time away from my desk this last couple of weeks ,so all i have to share is some of my sketchbook. Practically filled a sketch book with random bodies and shapes.
Here are a few random pages tho




I dont plan to be on the move again anytime soon and have a better working schedule than before. I'll have some digital sketches and assignment to share next time I post. I've had a lot more time to myself during the day as well and have made it my personally goal to post at least roughly once a week.
till next time

13 days later

Hello everyone ! Back again with some drawings, I've been able to work on my pen display on and off for about an hour to 2 hours a day for the last week and a half. I feel I have improved on my line quality and accuracy but not on my speed. I just kinda get lost in the details when I draw from reference, just a habit I feel I need to be aware of.

Honestly, these heads took me the longest time, mostly because its hard for me to assemble the facial features together with correct proportions. In which case I'd start them over the next day. The Middle Face was my first attempt, I tired from imagination. I kept it on the canvas to figure out my mistakes because it looked right, but..off. I used a custom brush I made i krita, and didnt like the values that it would give me, it would come out too dark. I gotta play around with the brush maker more.

So for lefty and righty, I stuck to some reliable mediums for me as well as used references. They look better, but I feel like I'm going to practice faces and features along with my daily gestures in my sketch book. I really want to nail facial features. I want to exaggerate, like the nose and eyes. My ears need help too :sob:

Next post soon to come, probably more faces, and some 3-point perspective assignments.

Hi, do you mind if you can show the reference image for the left and right faces?

I believed that you may have incorrectly positioned the facial features as the the middle of the sphere represent the brow, not the eye. Thus, it may looks like the character looks so compressed. Just checking, thx.

Yo, looking good overall, what gordon says is exactly what I am noticing, feature placement is off. Rendering and detailing is looking good.

It definitely took me a few tries before getting these things right. Things that I feel help the most is measuring height and width first (essentially boxing in), locating the midline and tilt, finding the glabella “keystone”, and drawing the contour of the midline to get a good idea of the proportions of the the features. Sideways proportions is a little more intuition for me as I really don’t have a systematic approach for that, so once I get overall proportions I start to measure reference points to get those but knowing skull anatomy and finding orbits / cygomatic arches helps a lot

Cheers!

Sure thing, they are screenshot of random people i found on tiktok. They had very angular chins/cheek shape so i thought it'd be good practice for stucture.Thank you @snakker and @Gordon003 I'll keep those tips in mind as I practice.

12 days later

Hey, everyone
Got into the office today after being sick a couple days and decided to draw a figure from memory , to test all my knowledge for the human form. Came ok I think

Hello ,everyone
These are son gestures and drawings i did thoughout the day today.
I spent much of my time today making custom brushes to better represent what strokes i like. After watching the demo I also was messing with vanishing points to deform shapes to better wrap my head around 3 point perspective, so far so good.

Also did a quick face sketch, I been trying to simplify the stucture of the faces I practices even more as to 1. not get lost in the details and 2. help with facial structure.

Hello everyone ,first time on my tablet in a couple days had a bit of computer woes i needed to fix and my son's been sick do to the weather and pollen. Have some of my daily geatures to show as well as a very rough sketch of a city wall that took me much longer that I'd like admit to draw :grin:
Most of my time went to figuring out vector point positions and trying to visualize from the grid what I'm trying to draw. Kinda get lost in the visual noise even with the Krita assited line dirctional snap helping me to make shapes. I think for my next attempt I'm going to break down a photo referance to better understand what Im looking for.

Anyone whose has had any success with 3 point perspective any tips you could give ?

Nice work on the studies

Umm as for the 3 point perspective, I guess it’s more of a concept thing to wrap one’s head around as it can be a bit ambiguous or confusing at times. From what I have learned up to now I can say its a bunch of technical rules that apply to line and object placement in art that help sell the way humans perceive 3D space. Those rules will vary delending on various factors that change from scenario to scenario

For example, when looking straight ahead towards the horizon, if an object is placed in front of you such as what you drew last, that is tilted only to its side (rotated on the Y axis only) you would apply 2 point perspective. When applying the vanishing points, the closer you place them the more the geometry gets compressed at the middle like a wide angle camera lens and the farther appart you place the points, the more you simulate a telefoto lens with no deformation

If you tilt the object on the X axis, or if you start looking at an angle upwards or downwards, you would have to use 3 point perspective to indicate that in your drawing

So for your example, what you can do is make some front and side view schematics and then imagine placing yourself closer to the object and looking up, or being on top of the wall and looking down, then you will have to use the 3 point perspective rules

Dang that was a lot of text, hope it helps

Cheers!

Thanks for the assit, I'll keep working at it.
(and don't worry I dont mind alot of text)