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Nice topic Drunkelelf.
Unfortunately I cannot tell the names.
In the figure drawing parts, I like the female model, a little chubby with the ponytail (mostly wearing underwear) a lot - probably the most. She has very soft and female looking shapes and nice volumes, and I like the poses which are to me the right balance between not-too-simple and not-too-complex. I also like the pictures with the fully dressed afro-american woman who does these martial-art-like poses often with extreme perspective foreshortening. Though I mostly terribly fail in sketching that. lol.
In the figure drawing I skip quite a lot for different reasons, mostly for the pose being too boring or the light being too bad. And for some reason, I do not like most of the poses of the guy who is climbing trees. I really cannot tell why, it's not him, its just the poses.
In the portraits/facial expressions my absoulte favorite is the woman with the hair band. Not only does she have (IMHO) an exceptionally beautiful face though not looking like a typical beauty queen. She also presents super interesting perspectives and extreme facial expressions. The hairband and her hairstyle help to make resemblance (to some extent) an achievable goal. I think I have not yet seen a photo of her that I did not love, and often, I browse back after my time is up because the photo deserves a more finished sketch and I cannot let it go. I also like the guy with the red (? sorry I am colour-blind) hair and beard and the very long and rectangular head shape a lot, also for the perspectives and expressions. For him, I am using a kind of Loomis-method but with boxes, and I feel that drawing him greatly helps me to get better at drawing the head in perspective.
In the portrait drawing I rarely skip - only if I have too many neutral expressions in the front-view in a row. The portrait collection on this page is absolutely outstanding to me, I could not think of how to do this better. Biiig kudos to Kim and to all models!!!
And by the way, I was struggling super-hard with drawing hair, doing countless tutorials - without significant success. A few hours of 3 minute sketches were the game-changer here. If you only have 10-15 seconds for the hair, you naturally focus on the big shapes, and that was what I had always been missing.
Finally, I think that the afro-american body builder available in both tools deserves some kudos - they are very well lighted, the poses/expressions are always interesting and his face/beard/hairstyle is so characteristic that it drives me to a more cartoony approach.
Sorry, for extending this to the "story of my life", but I rarely contribute to the community, because I mostly come for drawing and very often I even do not log in. You inspired me, Drunkelelf.
Have a lovely day all, and keep practicing with line of action - I can really tell that nothing helped me more to improve my skills than doing this regularly.
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Kritzel
edited this post on April 13, 2023 6:14pm.
Reason: spelling mistake
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