Another sheet of head practices. Decided to learn more about planes and eventually light and form T u T.

Spent roughly 2 hrs on this... I feel so slow ;;

Another set of head practices. Should sketch more heads from photographs after this. I realized I'm still not too familiar with head forms... T-T

There's also one more thing I find oddly fishy. For some reason, I sketch better on paper than digitally with my tablet. I guess when I sketch I can kinda ghost over the paper to feel out the forms before laying down my lines but digitally I can't do that... That's why I have so much difficulty figuring out the perspective of my forms. I don't really have a solution for this but doing more sketches digitally and slowing down more will probably help...

Hello!

Haha I see XD I don't think that guide is wrong, it's just different, it just have a bigger chopped of surface. I think guides change depending on how you understand the head shape and there are many kinds of head shapes. The most important thing is I think is to understand why the guide is designed that way

Proko's Loomis head video is pretty helpful in showing that XD, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC2ZppKHCqU.

Yep! No problem glad you like their work XD

Aye! thanks so much! T U T

I originally sketched this in my sketchbook lol and I wanted to draw it again but digitally. I really can't figure out how to draw the other parts well. I guess I will just come back to it another time.

I liked my sketch more T^T
I always wondered why whenever I do something on paper, it will always look many times different than when I do it digitally AND IT'S ALL BASE ON HOW MUCH YOU UNDERSTAND YOUR OWN DRAWINGS UGH.

It's like what Steven Zapata said in his rendering demonstration, you will have to draw things in different sizes to know what you do things by habit or understanding UGH.

I'm trying to change my mindset but it's hard to stick through because I love to just draw freely. I'll work some kind of process out so I can feel less disappointed in myself whenever I do this sigh. TT

I wanted to do some breakdowns of bodies with perspective in mind. It's always pretty frustrating to me that whenever I use references, I don't really understand what's going on in the picture. Eventually, I'll end up copying it instead of understanding what's going.
Usually, after such drawings, I'll feel pretty empty

My impatience also makes my drawings much worse, it leads me to rush which kind of leads to bad drawing habits? Like drawing without a clear goal or purpose and all the skills you end up learning becomes just flat, dead lines.

This happens to me so much and I've always felt bad afterward. It made my future practices worse even if I've drawn more. The drawings were rushed and I never take the time to process my drawings.

Ugh, it kinda sucks to think that these problems are something you set for yourself without realizing. I guess writing in forums like this help you reflect more and hopefully make the problems you have more tangible and fixable

Never give up, keep going

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Some leg flow practices. Trying to get the essence the pose down more.

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More legs. Trying to think about how I can represent curves better. I think taking note of where the knees are, hip tilt, and foot placement has helped me draw them better. It's better to start with that than with an empty brain.

HI Shellac!

Thanks so much! I know right. I got it from looking at Nesskain works. His people drawings are always so solid and the main reason for that I think is he always uses perspective grids in most of his drawings. I wish to draw people like him too someday

Hahaha about gesture drawing, I think the main contributor to my impatience was that I only did one kind of practice for a very long time. During that period, my knowledge about art was pretty limited so I didn't know any better about what it was for. I thought it was a one-trick pony to improve my art skills ACK so I only did that all the time ( I think what's worse is I mostly did 30s-2mins Gesture drawings, rarely 10 mins ).

It affected how I treated my drawing studies, I would just draw in rapid succession without looking too deeply on my problems and then just kept moving on. I think for studies, they really have to be broken down and fixed before continuing on, or those issues will just keep recurring again I only have to experience this frustration for a couple of years before I'm finally fed up enough to do something about it lol.

Yep, sorry about my rant and thanks so much again! You too! I hope your art school goes well!

I think I'm understanding heads a lot more now! I really have made a lot of progress once I switched up how I practiced. I don't even know why it didn't come to me from the beginning to practice this way ugh. I guess it got to do with it being a lot like " studying " instead of what drawing meant to me which is something that is supposed to be free and easygoing. So whenever I practiced drawing, I would just sketch instead of breaking it down every step of the way. Never using enough brains and making enough logical deductions.
I think another reason why I didn't like to do this was I considered it/ felt it was cheating which was so so stupid. I think it got to do with the feeling that it felt like copying instead of something that comes from you but I now realized that art comes directly from what you observe and you should do whatever you can to understand the things you are seeing. I think right now we're really blessed to have photoshop and all these art tools, it really makes learning art easier.

Observe, breakdown, test yourself without seeing and rinse and repeat. I think I'll continue learning this way

These are some painting practices I did. I did some head plane practices base on head references before the painting though, https://www.artstation.com/artwork/GX3Ax1. I tried to get a lot of different angles ( Above HL, AT HL, Bottom HL ) so I can understand the relationships of the different face features better and just practice from there.

Once I practiced that, I decided to test my understanding by drawing from photographs and that made me realize I don't really understand where the eyes, nose, and lips lay on the face once the perspective gets more complicated.

Like I get the overall picture right but the face is so off. The main issue was that I treated it very flat and I didn't adjust it to the tilt of the head AUgh. I'll work more on that more sigh.

For painting, I'm really happy with the progress I made so far. I felt like I understood more about it now once I have broken the picture into planes. It made understanding how light hits on the surface easier and more manageable. Another point I'd like to make is that it's best to treat your painting every step of the way, makes it more manageable. I used to paint straightaway without many guidelines and that was so difficult and time-consuming. It made me backtrack a lot and "feel" my way through the painting, instead of basing my painting on my understanding, you'll naturally just end up copying in the end and I believe you won't learn much like that in the end I feel.

I used art from https://twitter.com/mamongmay, and just bought https://cubebrush.co/naranbaatarcg?order_by=popular stuff ( I'm really excited to learn from this ). References are all NCT really like their aesthetics . Looking at their stuff really helped me understand a lot more now.

Future stuff I'd like to practice more on,
- Heads in perspective/ alignment
- Hair Parts
- Greyscale and Lighting Transitions
- Eyes/ Nose forms
- Brushes/ Blending/ Textures

Some head studies from references. I tried to gauge the proportions but I'm always off unless I spend a lot of time tweaking. Also, been doing a lot of drawabox lately. My drawings are less misaligned and I'm happy about that :"D Less frustration for me.