SoulsCore's Sketchbook

[SoulsCore]

I feel I need an art buddy, or be active in an art community or something but at the same I want to go at my own pace so that I can improve steadily. I've also been really unhappy with my progress and specifically with how hard it is for me to remember and apply the things I've studied so I decided to really truly slow down and focus on head construction.

I had bought PencilKings' Figure Drawing Challenge (for only $7 with the discount link on their Youtube channel) and in it Sycra mentions drawing something at least 20 times in a row to memorize it so I'm applying that to the head. It's strange, I watched a video a few years back where Sycra talked about how to practice drawing but I figured I was already doing that and didn't follow it properly. He has a newer Iterative Drawing video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0ufz75UvHs that explains it a bit better (he focuses more on imaginative drawing though).

I'm finding it to be incredibly helpful drawing the construction of the head and features 20 times over (plus extra times in between to make sure I'm not forgetting it). I thought I was being patient before with my studies but it seems I was fooling myself and trying to cover too many things before I really understood it.

Here are a few of the pages I've done. I'll be sure to apply it to actual faces once I get through the rest of the features.