Peter's Sketchbook

[Fedodika]

Jeff emphasizes correct repetition, and that's gonna go further than trying to shade and lay in planes on a flawed drawing. When you do lots and lots of repetitions, especially the riley method, just from your head and every now and then a few from reference, you build this sensitivity to the correct proportions. The Rythms help you find the other parts of the face once you internalize them.

For instance, draw 10 riley heads from your imagination, then 10 from jeffs examples. put em away and come back the next day and see how they are flawed. if your rythms are off, it will influence the rest of the heads you end up doing, specially the more finished ones. Work on the rythms until they are solid, and it will make everything else a lot easier, you'll just know when a portrait is off and be able to use the rythms as a guide to find where the other features/bones would be.

Just fill pages with em dude, i did it a couple months ago with loomis heads in pen, it multiplied my head drawing skills