Thanks for the warm welcome guys, really kind! I hope I can encourage anybody lurking to do more drawing themselves in 2013

Here’s today’s sketch. It’s from Andrew Loomis’ book on Figure drawing. Trying to improve my grasp of proportions.

Side view proportion study.

I would have uploaded the image directly to the post but it was slightly taller than 800px.

Per your request, I will make a comment about the second portrait. The proportions of the length of the head is off. Eyes are about the middle of the face, unless you are making a caricature or cartoon. In which case, please ignore my observation. Then again, if the person in question isn’t in proportion, I withdraw my comment. The rest of your drawings look great.

Thanks for the crit! I agree 100%

I think after I’ve worked through these figure proportions from the Andrew Loomis book I’m looking at I’ll work on figuring out and remembering how to get face proportions more accurate. With that one I could feel like it wasn’t right’ but then I was too invested in detail and it’s hard to go back. The solution, I’m thinking, is to get the lines right from the start before I put in any detail and for that a solid grasp of where parts of the face should fall naturally will help a ton!

And it’s a picture from a reference of Alan Watts so definitely supposed to be a real person and not a cartoon

I think your teacher was definitely right Jenny, in fact I think that’s the only way to get better at anything! I say practice and hard-work is almost everything. I’m not a big believer in ‘talent’.

Day #007

Figure is a bit wide which has made it look kinda stumpy in the legs but live and learn!

DAY #008

Decided to work through the ‘drawing a head’ segments of ProkoTV. These videos are absolutely fantastic so if you’re a beginner like me definitely take a look.

These are what I made kind of ‘sketching along’ with his instructions in the first two videos of the playlist. Some of them look better than others and I think to really ‘get’ this concept his suggestion to draw 100 heads from different angles would be the thing to do.

Most people (including myself) do not want to do the boring stuff like that. But it’s precisely those things we dont want to do which will give us the biggest results. If you take any field there is a a kind of curve where as people get better the amount of people at that level gets smaller and smaller. I definitely buy into the theory that those at the end of the curve (let’s call them the 1%) are the people who are willing to do the things that other people aren’t. Drawing a head 100 times is just like that… I wouldn’t be surprised at all if less than 1% of the people who have viewed his series actually did that many practices of this concept…

… including me at this moment in time…

Will I step up and join the 1%…

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We’ll see… but for now here’s what I did do while following along: