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[JyonnyNovice]

JJ Yo Jonas! Great to have you here man : ) Thanks for the advice, I took that on for today's study - although yesterday was also about practising with charcoal, so that's why I tried to push it. Your portraits looking really nice too, watch the eyes though, I'm sure you saw it but their direction in the imaginative ones is a little unnatural. Remember that the iris is almost like a flat disc sunk under the surface of the eyeball, it can help with getting that part right.

Slapper

thanks for the advices, just seem weird to only do like 4 drawings and being done for the day. Also nice studies both of you.

I totally understand that, it can help to look at what your goal is when you do a study. If it's learning the anatomy shapes and how they look you can just do a line drawing, use contour lines / wrapping lines and /or some basic hatching to show the perspective. In fact you can fix it in your mind very clearly if you practice like that. If your goal is studying rendering and value and light and shadow and all that - that stuff does just take time. Maybe do a mix of both so you can feel like you're making more progress.


Skull stuff: reference then memory, bounced back and forth til I had these four done:





Some other stuff in my sketchbook, don't wanna flood this place with all my pages.