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Day 21

Today I focused on head anatomy exercises, mainly on the muscles of the head. I did a drawing based on goldfinger’s cadaver head, which is an assignment of Ilya’s anatomy of the head and neck course. After that, I spent some time creating more refined sketches of my orcish character, as well as more positions in the head turnaround.

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Day 20

At this day I drew just a few sketches. I wanted to know if I could remember all the important bones of the skull and draw them from imagination. I did only a profile view, but I was happy to see that I could already do it from imagination in a satisfactory way.

The second drawing is from a guy in the subway

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Day 19

Today’s been a really good day. In the past months I spent too much time studying and watching classes, but I didn’t really dedicated any time at all to creation. So I decided to focus on some personal concept art projects, designing characters and environment. This is my first attempt at creating a character. He’s an orc druid. Here is my ideation for the head/face and also some head turnarounds (still in progress).

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Day 18

Today I spent the entire day focusing on some personal projects, but I managed to do this quick drawing of an orcish elder from imagination. It took about 25min

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Day 17

Today I watched the last classes from Renaissance head drawing and focused on the last assignment. First I did some 5 minute warm-up drawings (graphite on toned paper) and then some 45 minute ones (sanguine and conté white crayon on toned paper).

 

I also had the chance to draw some people on the subway today. It was a really fun experience to do these quick studies from life.

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Day 16

Today I also did some quick head drawings from observation, this time using photoshop.

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Day 15

Yesterday I made some quick head drawings from observation and also from imagination.

Graphite is such a terrible media to scan. But I think it’s still better than it would be if I had taken pictures, since I had no proper lighting.

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Day 14

Today was a really productive day. I spent a lot of time watching lectures from Ilya’s Anatomy of the head and neck course and also drawing some skulls and bones. It’s awesome how anatomy can complement the structural studies. I feel like I’m getting to a deeper level of knowledge with head drawing.

First I drew the cranial and facial bones (only those that affect the external aspect of the skull), then I moved to a cephalometric points study and wraped up with some skull drawings from observation (photoshop) and from imagination (toned paper).

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Day 13

Today I did some 5 min and 30 min head drawings for the Renaissance head drawing course

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Day 12

Today I had kind of a day off, so I only did some quick 5 minute sketches using graphite and canson kraft paper

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Day 11

Today I continued the assignment for “Anatomy of the head and neck” course. As the last post, the goal was to study the structure and bones of the human skull.

I had a really good time with these and I’m looking forward to the next steps of the course.

I did two complete skull drawings for now, one in profile (yesterday) and another one in 3/4, and I feel that this exercise helped me to get more acquainted with the skull.

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Day 10

Yesterday I did a skull study for Ilya’s Anatomy of Head and neck course. When I finished there was no good lighting, so I decided to post today.

The goal was to draw the skull, focusing mainly on the structure and important bones, such as the frontal, parietal, zygomatic, etc.

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Day 09

Today I have put the knowledge built in the last days to good use making some more studies of the facial features.

I followed the same method used for the eye region studies.

First I analyzed the structural forms and planes of the nose and mouth region, based on day 08 studies. After that, I used this knowledge to analyze photographs of the facial features of interest. Then, at least, I drew those features from observation, based on photo reference.

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Day 08

Today I went through some more planar studies, starting to focus on the other facial features. I didn’t really spend much time on the exercises, but I mananged to begin the structural studies of the mouth, nose and ear.

Also, I’m starting one more head drawing course! Anatomy of the head and neck with Ilya Mirochnik. Really excited with this one.

On the next few days I plan to keep studying the structure and planes of the facial features, starting to give some focus to anatomy of the skull and neck as well.

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Day 07

Still focused on the eye region. Today my goal was to study how different eye movements change the shapes around the eye, and turns out it really changes a lot. The eyelid shapes are really affected by the roundness of the cornea and the outer corner of the eye tends to follow vertical movements. In this type of movement the eye muscles also affect the volume of the upper/lower eye region, making them more or less prominent.

For this study I worked digitally, analyzing photos at first. Then I made some drawings from observation, focusing on a structural approach.

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