04-28-2021, 06:32 AM
Nice gouache process. That study is looking good. Wrt your people drawings, specifically the faces, I have noticed you consistently make the noses too long and the gap between mouth and nose also. This is a common problem we have with faces for some reason. Also it will probably pay to focus more on matching symmetry of features across the centre line when placing them. For example, your female imagination drawing has an off centre mouth, and similar happened when using ref from post #625. The same argument can be made for placement of eyes, so they aren't 'floating'. Perhaps exploring ways of simplifying that initial placement can help. Some people recommend actually drawing eyeballs in the sockets before placing the eyes, or using the reilly brow/eye rhythms. I don't really do this myself, but perhaps something along the lines of using different underlying structural abstractions, than what you are used to, can help you break your default biases atm
There is also something a bit uncanny with the heads in your imaginative characters. I think perhaps you are still erring on the side of too large (or potentially to do with some mis proportion in the cranial mass, or maybe because you flatten the hair at the top of the skull quite a bit, or perhaps it is the way you handle the neck proportion and placement too). Your hands tend to be on the small side.
My figure teacher recently told me, be more generous with hands and feet, and I think having tested this, I would say you can actually get away with that more than say an off proportioned head.
There is also something a bit uncanny with the heads in your imaginative characters. I think perhaps you are still erring on the side of too large (or potentially to do with some mis proportion in the cranial mass, or maybe because you flatten the hair at the top of the skull quite a bit, or perhaps it is the way you handle the neck proportion and placement too). Your hands tend to be on the small side.
My figure teacher recently told me, be more generous with hands and feet, and I think having tested this, I would say you can actually get away with that more than say an off proportioned head.