Peter's Sketchbook

[Peter]

Fell behind on updating but I've still been doing work although not as much as usual the past week, pretty much just focusing on my portraiture skills.

My live stream classes end this week (well next week counting the crit video) and with doing taking 2 head drawing classes I've not had much time to work on my figure drawing. Brian has a 10 week basic figure construction class next term (beginning of October) so my plan is to enroll in that and work on my figures, might take another class although I'm not sure which one yet.

Portrait from life last week, still have shit lighting at my classes, they are pretty much overhead like in a classroom. Struggled with the shadow mapping on it as when I squinted pretty much the entire head looked like it was in shadow but when I opened my eyes her right cheek (left in drawing) looked to be 2-3 shades lighter than under the chin...weird. I've brought up the lighting situation again so will wait and see.




Bought the female head from planes of the head so wanted to draw from that, working on breaking it down into 2 values but didn't really get a likeness.




Erik's Homework

My rendering has definitely improved although I didn;t get the width of his cheek right, made him look skinnier haha.




Brian's Homework

Made a study of his drawing then tried applying it to the homework below.






I've watched the crits for last weeks homeworks, just need to do a draw over and add notes which I'll do this week.

Lastly tried drawing some heads from imagination, feel like they have improved but still got a long way to go.