03-01-2021, 06:41 AM
Zorrentos - Thanks alot :) That's the plan, going to do another 5-6 weeks of study on things I either haven't done enough of (hands/feet,) or haven't done in awhile (perspective,drapery) and then work on a new illustration.
wild.89 - Thanks man :) i must confess my last update was for work I did over a 2 week period (I wish I could do all that in a week), bloody facial anatomy homeworks have ben kicking my butt! Gonna crack on with the goauche painting this week so should be complete by Friday.
Quick update.
Feedback
Facial anatomy week 4
I was having a few issues with the placement of the nose and mouth in my assignments which I asked him to look at since I wasn't sure where I was going wrong which he kindly did. Part of it was me forgetting that the skin has some thickness to it which I completely forgot about.
Work
Facial Anatomy
Week 5
This week was just expanding on all the previous weeks and looking to see how expressions work, exploring Paul Eikman's FACS and seeing if we could apply his work and identify these "markers" on images and try and apply it to work from imagination.
FACS
Some FACS numbering I did on some photos.
Tracings
I originally tried just doing some drawings of expressions from imagination but I was having a really hard time with it, so instead I thought I would do some studies of the 2 facial expressions I was trying to depict first and then apply that to my work from imagination.
Imagination
2 peices I tried doing from imagination. Thought they were looking correct in the muscle and fat stages but once I tried putting it all together and drawing on top to create a face I felt like it all fell apart. I feel like my lack of practice in drawing facial expressions is mostly to blame but I'm starting to get the feeling that my approachh to imaginative drawing and my mindset is not right. I feel like I am of the mindset of trying to draw things completely realistically with correct lighting and construction of features from imagination rather than trying to simplify and stylize. Best I can explain it is comic art. They are realistic in terms of accurate proportions but have stylized things like facial features and anatomy, if this makes any sense? Maybe if I had that mindset when it came to imaginative drawing and knowing that I can never achieve an imaginative drawing as detailed or realistic as those of drawings did from photo ref then I would create better drawings?
Note
There doesn't seem to be an assingment for week6 of the facial anatomy course, I normally get my feedback on Mondays so I'll double check then but my plan now was to crack on with the gouache painting all this week and get that done by Friday, then take a few days off and start my new practice schedule the week after.
I have 1 or 2 tradtional things I did this week which I'll post once the painting is done. Totally underestimated how long the facial anatomy homework would take.
wild.89 - Thanks man :) i must confess my last update was for work I did over a 2 week period (I wish I could do all that in a week), bloody facial anatomy homeworks have ben kicking my butt! Gonna crack on with the goauche painting this week so should be complete by Friday.
Quick update.
Feedback
Facial anatomy week 4
I was having a few issues with the placement of the nose and mouth in my assignments which I asked him to look at since I wasn't sure where I was going wrong which he kindly did. Part of it was me forgetting that the skin has some thickness to it which I completely forgot about.
Work
Facial Anatomy
Week 5
This week was just expanding on all the previous weeks and looking to see how expressions work, exploring Paul Eikman's FACS and seeing if we could apply his work and identify these "markers" on images and try and apply it to work from imagination.
FACS
Some FACS numbering I did on some photos.
Tracings
I originally tried just doing some drawings of expressions from imagination but I was having a really hard time with it, so instead I thought I would do some studies of the 2 facial expressions I was trying to depict first and then apply that to my work from imagination.
Imagination
2 peices I tried doing from imagination. Thought they were looking correct in the muscle and fat stages but once I tried putting it all together and drawing on top to create a face I felt like it all fell apart. I feel like my lack of practice in drawing facial expressions is mostly to blame but I'm starting to get the feeling that my approachh to imaginative drawing and my mindset is not right. I feel like I am of the mindset of trying to draw things completely realistically with correct lighting and construction of features from imagination rather than trying to simplify and stylize. Best I can explain it is comic art. They are realistic in terms of accurate proportions but have stylized things like facial features and anatomy, if this makes any sense? Maybe if I had that mindset when it came to imaginative drawing and knowing that I can never achieve an imaginative drawing as detailed or realistic as those of drawings did from photo ref then I would create better drawings?
Note
There doesn't seem to be an assingment for week6 of the facial anatomy course, I normally get my feedback on Mondays so I'll double check then but my plan now was to crack on with the gouache painting all this week and get that done by Friday, then take a few days off and start my new practice schedule the week after.
I have 1 or 2 tradtional things I did this week which I'll post once the painting is done. Totally underestimated how long the facial anatomy homework would take.