Walent's sketchbook

[walent]

Damn fine work! Interesting to see how you're tackling these heads.

If you haven't already, I would learn the names of the bones/muscles for the head for a greater grasp on the subject. I know some artists don't really go through the trouble of learning/memorizing the names, and only settle for memorizing the shapes. I mean, judging from these and your past sketches I might assume that you already do know the names. Either way, it looks like your heads are coming together quite nicely.

Thanks Dennis!

I have to agree that learning names isn't exactly helpful except when giving/receiving critiques on muscles or when you're actually talking about it. But not when you're actually drawing. I remember Proko saying he never actually cared about names until he started teaching and had to learn them.

I learned the names because I've heard them over and over again and I also like working out and knowing exactly how to train each muscle or better said which muscles do I train with an exercise.

I do know a lot of muscle names on the body but on the face/head I must admit I don't know names, I don't even know all the muscles. I never actually thought about learning them.

Maybe because I didn't get to studying expressions at such a deep level.
Still trying to get the shapes and proportions right.

But I'll definitely give it a try.

And now that I'm thinking about it, I guess I looked at all the simplifications out there like the Asaro head and made sense to me so I didn't bother studying all the muscles myself, so yeah, gotta do that!