30 minute session of heads, critique please?
© 2023 Meijiisconfused
Hi!
This is my first time posting a session on heads, I'd like to know if I'm on the right track and what can I improve for next time.
Thanks in advance!
Sci Girl
Hi meijiisconfused! I hope your not tired of me yet! This is a really good start for your first time posting head drawings, I think your focusing on the right thing(mainly getting the overall shape of the head down and accurate), espeiclaly in your early drawings. I espeiclaly like the first drawing you did for your five minutes, the expression on it is super easy to read despite its small size! But I have some recomendations.
First and foremost, if you havent already (i dont know what you do in your spare time) try doing some drawings of the skull alone. Im noticing for some of your faces at strange angles that your trreating the face as a flat plane on the neck--getting a sense of whats happening "under the hood" so to speak I think will really help you in bringing more dimension to yoru head drawings. The skull can roughly be thought of as a series of shapes working on the base of a square with a rounded top with a smalled wedge (the jaw) added on. As you draw the skull or faces try to think about how to further sculpt that base? Does the forehead plane curve as it hits the eyebrows? What do the eyesockets look like and how does their irregular shape affect how we see eyes in perspective, and how eyes are shaded? Do the cheekbones resemble a pair of glasses below the eyes?
In addition, a smaller surface level recommendation goes to your 10 minute drawing. be very careful shading the lips. Having the whole thing as a darker color is tempting, but a more effective strategy is to only shade the cupids bow, the mouthline, and the bottom of the lower lip. if you want to add more detail to your shading on the lips its possible, but go at it with a light touch. The three lines I gacve you are most effective (in my experience) at determing the overall shape of the lips and what they are expressing.
I really admire how hard you work at the craft meijiisconfused, and how anxious you are to improve. I hope on some level the information i can give you as a fellow amature is useful, but you should know that your own hard work inspires me to redouble my own efforts!
First and foremost, if you havent already (i dont know what you do in your spare time) try doing some drawings of the skull alone. Im noticing for some of your faces at strange angles that your trreating the face as a flat plane on the neck--getting a sense of whats happening "under the hood" so to speak I think will really help you in bringing more dimension to yoru head drawings. The skull can roughly be thought of as a series of shapes working on the base of a square with a rounded top with a smalled wedge (the jaw) added on. As you draw the skull or faces try to think about how to further sculpt that base? Does the forehead plane curve as it hits the eyebrows? What do the eyesockets look like and how does their irregular shape affect how we see eyes in perspective, and how eyes are shaded? Do the cheekbones resemble a pair of glasses below the eyes?
In addition, a smaller surface level recommendation goes to your 10 minute drawing. be very careful shading the lips. Having the whole thing as a darker color is tempting, but a more effective strategy is to only shade the cupids bow, the mouthline, and the bottom of the lower lip. if you want to add more detail to your shading on the lips its possible, but go at it with a light touch. The three lines I gacve you are most effective (in my experience) at determing the overall shape of the lips and what they are expressing.
I really admire how hard you work at the craft meijiisconfused, and how anxious you are to improve. I hope on some level the information i can give you as a fellow amature is useful, but you should know that your own hard work inspires me to redouble my own efforts!
The reasons why?:
a) To make your faces and expressions the least stilted.
b) Make your faces and expressions the most boldest, powerful, vital and felt with energy.
And c) To really exaggerate your facial edges, spaces, and relationships of the facial features to communicate character.
For even most details, look into the Mike Matteo's youtube video on drawing faces and expressions right down there.👇
https://youtu.be/EoBjCcC1UAk
Shucks, have another two!
https://youtu.be/CvjrpUkzRl8
Livestream.
Good luck, so kindly take these with the smallest and insignificant grain of salt.