Peter's Sketchbook

[Peter]

yea nice job on the quick sketches, Heads in those sizes are extremely hard to get looking decent. Any time i draw one that looks decent. That whole 15 second drawing thing jeff talks about could be useful for developing small heads on quicksketch figures.

Again bro you need to shade less and just do more lay ins of heads, that improves mileage a lot. Fill pages of just lay in's some tasteful lineweight like you do with the skulls, and really UP that volume. Also the memory study thing ive been doing has helped loads; Study the reference without drawing and take little written notes, then put the ref aside draw from memory then take notes on everything thats wrong. Youll notice so many things you do subconciously that most people dont have the patience to point out as its hard to be so precise and articulate <3

I keep meaning to go back to head quick sketching, even bought the book he recommended and everything. Don;t know how you feel but I always find quick sketching very taxing mentally I think just becuase I'm analyzing so much haha.

I've actually just started getting back into head lay ins (although i took them to the 2 value stage) and I think your right about doing a shit ton of lay ins to increase my milage, I beleive Jeff also talks about this is in one of his videos?

I was hoping to have enough money to sign up for another live streaming class alongside with the structual figure drawing class that I have already signed up. I wa slooking at the head,fig,quick sketch class but leaning more towards the 20 min head lay ins now based on what you said, currently saving for a nice head bust so we'll see.

I really like the memory study exercise you suggested, I know I'm still guilty of making the same consistent mistakes but prob only remember 1-2 of them. I'll have to give it a try and see what I consistently do wrong. :)