Fedodika the Koala

[Fedodika]

alrightey so, made quite a bit of money in town yesterday and stayed out a whole 12 hours doing caricature, so i was pretty tired when i got back home and even more tired throughout most of today, but i am quickly gettin my vitality back! 

I tried this Jeff Watts exercise with the female statue thing, and was really not satisfied with the initial line drawing, so i redid it and eventually shaded the one i did second. I need to like, hone my reckless nature, im willing to draw something wrong the first time, then i can adjust what i did wrong and redraw it more accurately. Maybe if i have a small thing where i draw out the proportions in a thumbnail to see where I place the lines so i can visualize it right there on the paper would help. I've tried that doing figure drawings and it seems to help. 

The (memorized/simple) asaro heads are pretty tough to draw since they may resemble a head but are different in meaningful ways. Everything is flattened or curved to the extreme so it throws me off but that's only because i have weak observation skills. I just look at it on my desk everyday and i really scratch my head like "So if i take the eyes out that's the proportions?" 

The nose seems so short without eyes. I've never done a drawing from life of it that was satisfactory to me, i always struggle with how the head turns and goes from flat to round, its confusing visually. The neck is also hard to draw because the natural angle it sits at seems skewed but is perfectly centered. That and the shadow from the little line from the neck is immersed in the same plane behind it, and the neck isnt completely round. But one day I'll get it right, and it'll look awesome!