03-01-2017, 07:50 PM
Mostly a bunch of hands, which I haven't studied in a while. A lot of these are from imagination.
I figured some stuff out today while drawing heads and figures.
A few things that make life easier:
- drawing a tiny sketch silhouette will let me get proportions more correct, both from imagination and from ref. Increase the size and draw over it.
- silhouettes make more sense for me in terms of gesture. I only figured this out after drawing the hands so don't know if I'll hit a wall with all those fingers flying around. I still feel like I don't understand what the great artlords mean and are doing with gesture, but this is something.
- the best way for me to build a head from imagination is to start with 3 parallel lines for the tilt of the head. Cap off the round top and add the jaw. This makes turning the head in really extreme angles possible for me, and even clarifies if I'm seeing the underside of the jaw. I don't know why this works so well while everything else fails miserably, but it does.
![[Image: tumblr_om4qjv0BWt1r4ltwho1_1280.png]](https://68.media.tumblr.com/4de30002aa7212a7ca0647c4a1fadd58/tumblr_om4qjv0BWt1r4ltwho1_1280.png)
I figured some stuff out today while drawing heads and figures.
A few things that make life easier:
- drawing a tiny sketch silhouette will let me get proportions more correct, both from imagination and from ref. Increase the size and draw over it.
- silhouettes make more sense for me in terms of gesture. I only figured this out after drawing the hands so don't know if I'll hit a wall with all those fingers flying around. I still feel like I don't understand what the great artlords mean and are doing with gesture, but this is something.
- the best way for me to build a head from imagination is to start with 3 parallel lines for the tilt of the head. Cap off the round top and add the jaw. This makes turning the head in really extreme angles possible for me, and even clarifies if I'm seeing the underside of the jaw. I don't know why this works so well while everything else fails miserably, but it does.