Term 2 - Chris

[chris.geringer]

Hello fellow students. How goes it? It's been an interesting month for me, but I'm starting to get the hang of being more productive, slowly but surely. Make hard work a habit early, kids. It's much harder to do later.

In any case, I decided to skip ahead a little. I know that I have to do the 2pt assignment from term 1 still, but I got sick of getting beat up by lines and needed a win to get things rolling again.

Here's my first attempt at a constructed face. I've done a little bit of this before, so it was more familiar to me than drawing buildings. I tried doing it without reference this time, but I'll be studying the proportions, shading planes, etc. and do a followup in a week to see what my progress is like. More than anything, I feel like my shading could use a lot of work.

Until next time,
-Chris

[chris.geringer]

Some more faces from the past couple of days. My pen display finally came in and I've been having a fun time acclimating myself to it.

[Vonschlippe]

This last face is a massive improvement over the one from a few days ago. The forms are clearer and more confident.

Keep at it, you're doing great!

[chris.geringer]

Thanks for the kind words. I started working from reference, so things look a bit better.

Here's some eyes that I did today. They're my weakest part of the face, I feel, and painting is another weakness so I decided to practice both at once.

[chris.geringer]

Today was a paint-along with a Proko demonstration. I like my canvas textured brushes, but I suspect I use the noise of the texture to mask inaccuracies in my strokes and overall technique. When I use something that doesn't have a texture, like Marc's cube brush, it becomes a lot more obvious. Still, I feel pretty good about how this turned out.

[Vonschlippe]

Great progress on the bottom of that nose. To match with it, I think the top part could be more refined. There are several interesting plane changes at the brow ridge and above the bridge of the nose, and the hardness of that black line on the top right does not do it justice. Try softening up the transition instead of having a hard cut!
Good work nonetheless

[chris.geringer]

I agree! I kinda ran out of time, or else I'd have liked to soften the brow transition, like you said. Thanks for the critique.

I was away from the computer today, so a bit of physical medium this time. No reference.

[chris.geringer]

Ears. The ones on top were me trying to remember what they looked like without reference, then I did a 30min study.

[chris.geringer]

Timed, two tone study of Tilda Swinton, 1hr. I have a soft spot for androgyny and it doesn't help that she's awesome in just about everything she's been in. Here's the photo I referenced.

[chiara.arcidiaco]

I really like the eyes, they're really espressive. Also the shadows give to the drawing a lot of depth, great work!!

[chris.geringer]

~1 hr. Yet more construction practice, this time without reference. Looking back at my first picture, I've definitely made some improvement, but there are still rough spots which could be sanded down with more reference drawing. I think it's time to move on to the next assignment, however.