05-06-2021, 05:37 AM
(04-28-2021, 06:32 AM)Who Wrote: 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.
Thanks for such a detailed response Who! made me aware of some issues I didn't know I was having such as my necks so thanks for pointing them out to me.
It's funny you mention the abstractions ans reilly rythms, I used to use all the time before studying the skull and facial muscles some more and ever since then I just tend to use a few of the rythms such as the muzzle and the cheek/laugh line rythm. Past few months I've been lightly laying in the skull to find things such as socket placement etc, I do actually lay in eyeballs and then draw the lids on top so clearly I'm doing something wrong with that if I'm still having issues. I'll try using more of the rythms aswell as drawing in the skull going forward, see if that can help me. With the cranial mass I think it is mostly an issue of me flattening the hair out, not too sure why I do that....must do subconsciously.
Tried applying some of your fixes to my imaginative figure from last week, hopefully that is looking better now?
Regarding my necks, is it just an issue of them being a tad too long. Not entirely sure what you mean by placement, do you mean where it attaches to my heads?