Term 2 - Week 2

I decided to skip the Photoshop for Digital Production as it's not really aimed towards what I want out of the course. So I jumped into week 2 almost immediately.
I've mainly spent the week drawing the construction of the head, I tend to make the chin too short and narrow.

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Week 2's "draw 10 faces" assignment really got me out of my comfort-zone but I'm happy that I pushed through it.

I've also been keeping up with my gestures, they where getting a bit stale so tried to mix it up a bit with a rougher brush.

I've noticed a clear lack of focus lately, I think it has to do with the amount of information that goes into the anatomy of the face and I don't really feel like I grasp the concepts. Next week we get to study the individual pieces of the face as separate parts so that might help with my understanding.

Term 2 - Week 3

Been getting back into the swing of things! Discord user BigBlueDreams gave me some great feedback in terms of how to push my gestures, which made them really fun to do. It's become less a matter of capturing an accurate pose, but rather seeing how far you can push it until it breaks. I can really see the change comparing the first set with the 2nd set.

Some studies of facial features I've done this week.

These are my 5 heads from imagination for the week 3 assignment. Tried doing hair for one of them but left the rest bald cause I have no idea what I'm doing. I also noticed I tend to make the faces way to wide in a front facing view, also the curvature of the face makes it really difficult to picture how to place the features in a 3/4 view.

Quick drawing of my OC in a Fallout-esq/MadMax setting, watch your kneecaps!

Drawing for fun between dailies

Term 2 - Week 3

Some mouth studies and week 3's portrait. Onto week 4!

Term 2 - Week 4

Week 4 introduced perspective 2, a 3h and 20m lecture on different types of perspective as well as some demos from Marc. Homework changed into daily primitives, rotated boxes, cylinders, geometric shapes etc. I added heads and gestures into the mix too because at this point it just feels weird not doing them.

Here's some of the homework the last two weeks as well as anatomy 1 assignment 4, draw a head from memory. I think I need to do more studies with a more stylized approach, construction is all well and good but it lends itself to some stiff looking faces.

Term 2 - Week 4

Some more of this week's work. I've picked up Scott Roberson's book "How to Draw" and slowly going through the exercises there. Can highly recommend even thought it's very technical.

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Yeah, his video is good for an overview but I felt like it was lacking depth. Lots of big names swear by Scott Robertson's books and so far its been nothing but positive. Quite a bit of vehicles and hard surface towards the end of the book, which isn't really my vibe but I can't deny it's usefulness in learning perspective and drawing techniques.