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Day 54
Not much to show today either. I listened Glenn’s lecture on intermediate anatomy for hands and feet and drew one not so good pose from image library. The anatomy lecture did not work for me at all. It was very basic, I would say more of a general information on hand and feet anatomy then thorough analysis on how to draw them.
Day 55
I decided to take a break from figure drawing and listened Glenn’s lecture on a head drawing. It was very good, I liked it a lot.
Day 56
Timed draw of lips and ears from assignment in S.Huston’s “Beginning head drawing”
Day 57
Drew along with Charles Hu, trying to get ahead with head drawing basics and take a pause with figure drawing.
Day 58
More timed nose drawing exercises and trying portrait quick sketches with the main focus on structure and proportions. These are portrait baby steps I know that, and I know that they don’t look particularly good, but I am actually enjoying this. For now I think I got the understanding of basic head structure landmarks and I did some practice to solidify what I learned. I don’t do any rendering or at least I am trying to avoid it at this time. I had to switch out the order of lessons in series for the head drawing for the beginners. It just did not fit me well the way it was laid out in the series. So I did S.Huston first following with G. Vilppu (supposed to be the last in the series) and now I am working through Charles Hu lectures. I am enjoying drawing large with Charles. I am getting more and more comfortable with overhand drawing grip which I never did before this challenge. It is so much fun when drawing large, looking forward to more of it.
Your figure drawings are terrific, and your portrait studies look great too! I haven’t had a change to look at your new thread until just now and it’s very impressive. I did many of the same portrait courses when I first started with NMA earlier this year. Lately I’ve been concentrating on learning anatomy through Iliya’s Russian Academic course. Now I feel like I have so many methods and so much new knowledge that my head starts spinning at times. I think retaking some of the classes at this point would help me assimilate what I’ve been learning. It always helps seeing others post the same studies. I look forward to watching your progress!
Day 59
Thank you Jan for you kind words, I appreciate it!
Continued drawing along with Charles and did some practice drawings of skull and portrait. Initially I found Charles difficult to follow especially because once he starts drawing from the model he takes totally different approach from constructing. Instead he tries to capture general shape and character of the pose relaying strictly on observation. That is interesting but was also confusing and felt as too big step for me. It assumed that I already have a solid understanding of underlying structure and now when drawing from observation just lean on that knowledge and pull it in as required. I am really enjoying his lectures now, but at the same time I am employing all what have I learned in two other courses (Huston, Villpu). I stop the video and construct the head first with all the landmarks before proceeding with drawing along with him and that is really fun.
Hi Gordan. The head on the Day 59 is great!
But! For Day 60, what is it specifically that you don’t like?
Hi Marcolino, thanks for your comment!
What I don’t like is the following:
- Portrait on the left: the mouth placement is too low
- Portrait on the right: the line of the mouth is not in parallel with other facial features (eyes, nose, eyebrow line), the shape of mouth is also off, it does not show well curving around the mouth muzzle. Each eye is placed under the different angle.
That is what I see and what I like to correct in my future work.
Day 61
I will have to limit myself to 15-20 minutes portrait drawing and use different medium then polychromo pencil. I like to draw larger and pencil takes way longer than what I like to cover the large surface, even when it comes to adding just few basic tones. I think I will try with Conte tomorrow.
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