Woden's Sketchbook

[Woden]

Hey Woden, welcome to CD! I really dig your sketchbook, especially your latest character sketches (really like the Witcher sketch page at the bottom of the 2021 brain dumps haha). Your stuff is really good, so I think you are sometimes a bit hard on yourself :)

Your heads have a really good sense of structure too. Was there any particular resource/artist you studied from? Drawing a face consistently is hard af, I so agree lmao, but I think it's a case of practice makes perfect and having a few distinct features (like eye shape, lip shape, etc etc), so keep at it!

Keen as beans to see you post more!

Hey there, thank you for the warm welcome!
I really like your work as well, we seem to be interested in pursuing the same exact career path if what you wrote in your sketchbook thread back in 2018 still rings true. So your comment on being too hard on myself and having a good sense of structure with my heads really means a lot. Thanks!

To answer your question, there are waaay too many to count. :'D I'll do my best to mention a few though.
I can say with the utmost certainty that my interest in creating solid-looking heads was sparked by the works of Moebius, Philippe Scoffoni and Marianna Strychowska. The last one solidified my will to do whatever was in my power to learn how to render believable heads in perspective and from any angle, so I think I might have watched and read every tutorial on how to draw faces and heads in existence at this point. XD
And I felt like they weren't enough, so I started watching 3D sculpting tutorials as well. You might want to check out "SpeedChar" on Youtube for example, I feel like his tutorials really helped a lot!
I could mention many more artists and specific quotes that really sticked with me, here's some of them:
I became aware of the planes on the side of the nose by looking at Takehiko Inoue's drawings;
Glenn Vilppu's videos informed me of the area between the eyes and the nose, and the way the glabella intersects with the superior arches of the orbits;
I think I got how to make the nostrils look more solid with three simple planes while I was watching Stjepan Sejic work his magic during one of his livestreams;
I learned how to draw the zygomatic arch by looking at Scott Eaton's work;
I've been focusing on simplifying my lines ever since I watched a tutorial by Sinix on drawing square faces and read a piece of advice from Glen Keane: "don't be ambiguous: with a characters' head, there is a top, back and front".

I could talk about this for hours on end, it is my obsession after all. If you have any more questions, feel free to add me on Discord (everyone else who is reading this is welcome to do so as well if they wish!). My username is Woden#7151.

Thanks again for your comment, I'm looking forward to seeing your work! :)