Struggle and Hardwork by Jey Ram

[JeyRam]

Well hello there Jeyram!! My, you have some pretty lines and gestural sketches!! You also have some nice foundation to your figure work and heads.

I am however seeing a very consistent problem in your little head sketches. But it's more philosophical. Your heads are charming, the ones that aren't skewed at least because you roughly get proportions right and that makes an appealing little sketch.

The problem is, that's the only head you seem to be able to draw. Like, these photo references you (printed out) and pasted next to the sketch don't really resemble the head, even in a stylized sense for some of them. I'll see the reference, then look at the three sketches around it and i still can't decide which one it's supposed to be.

And I know this might suck, but like learning all the planes of the face and all the little pockets of fat is what it's going to take to push them faces to the next level. Even if they are stylized. Take some risks too you know, draw a crazy long nose, draw some goblin or troll looking faces, you'll learn a lot about proportions and how to vary them. It's something that can be really fun too since when you draw ugly creatures, you can try out lots of different shapes and you experiment with a different tool set.

Further, get just one sheet of paper, and a ref and copy that ref for a few hours, and erase stuff, and try to make it look exactly how it looks in the reference. This really WILL be the hard work because oh man it's tough lol. do your best at this and you will sort a lot of things out doing it!

Best wishes,
Koala man

Yeah youre right, I will def take this to heart :D thanks man

Wow, this sketchbook is awesome! So motivating, all your pages full of practice. This looks so cool and motivating.
Have no further advice, just wanted to say 'good work till now'.

Ayye thanks man, appreciate the support!


So i realized that i jumped to a standing work station too quickly, gotta ease into it and also get a floor mat.
Went back to my drafting table for a bit while I recover the overworked muscles LOL

Getting into studying the planes of the face and also having fun with forms, diving deeper into this :3