The 10000 Hour Rule - Art Edition - 7626/10,000

[JakeB]

Jonesoda - Cheers man, yeah the notes help a ton, do it! :). I'll try, thanks for the support :)

Today's stufffffff

Skull studies


Applying and stuff


I started typing up notes for digital stuff, as my handwriting sucks on a tablet, and it was stopping me from actually making any.
Not sure if these will be of any use, but I'll put them here this time, and maybe in future if there's something good, but I doubt it lol.

So, these were for the skulls:

Key landmarksCheek bones, pointy (zygomatic bone), goes out and around the side of the skull, and up past the eye socket
eye and nose sockets
Teeth in centre half
flare out for the teeth from the bones that hold them there
Jaw, comes in from behind
Eye brow.. casts a shadow into the socket
Teeth protrude out
mouth is halfway between nose cavity and bottom of chin
Nose bone pokes (curves) out a bit, just below the top of the eye socket
Zygomatic bone twists like a ribbon
Slight overbite
Zygomatic bone sticks out a long way sideways, cast a big shadow.
Nose pushes forward, think of the form.
Zygomatic bone, triangle sideways

Changes
Longer chin
Think of the form of the cheek and eye socket
Narrower, taller eye sockets. Slightly taller than a square
Zygomatic bone also goes up and past eye socket, leaving the temple behind it.
Eye sockets slant down outward at the top and bottom, steeper at the bottom - Narrower on the inside
Plane change between frontal, and temporal bone of skull. Frontal bone passes in front, creating the forehead. Almost a 90º change
Remember the plane change above the nose.
Narrower chin. Remember the loomis image where the two planks squash the chin
Top teeth block goes very narrow before it widens out again for the teeth.


Planes are very clear.Highlights 90%
Shadows 0%
High value range in the face, therefore the hair is black with only speculars
In the face, there is a lot of texture inside the brightest highlights, and where the forms turn from mid to shadow
Eyes
Bag under eye - 2 planes
Then a more upward plane, before it reaches the side of the nose

Really thin top lip
Slight specular on bottom lid

Changes
Front of cheek plane comedown lower.
More of a split between the eyes and the cheek
Highlight above lips
More nose planes, nostril.
More variation in the planes

Applying


Making changes with ref


Study, really focusing on edges with this one



Round face, mostly soft features. Slight tilt to one side

Gap in the shadow on the side side of the nose. Basically, the plane raises up out of the shadow.

Hard edges going down diagonally from the corners of the mouth

Sharp creases around eyes.

Sharp creases down from the nose, under the cheeks as well.

Sharp nostril, bounce light into the bottom of the nose.

Wrinkles across the forehead, following the form of the cheeks etc are sharp, but a small value change

Fat chin, so the edges under the chin are soft.

Lots of little hard edges in the hair

-Hair basically seems to be lots of alternating hard and soft edges, so… lots of soft brush strokes, erase for hard edges, then go again on a new layer if needed.

Really sharp highlights in the eyes, on a couple of sides of the light at least.

And some more progress on this, going to push to colour tomorrow.


Oh, and some sketching