Joseph's shiny new sketchbook

[Pubic Enemy]

Thanks!
Yeah I kind of agree. with the perspective thing it's still all good, but it's a suggestive technique, like you can help yourself imagine how something should look at a certain angle. Can't really say 'this is definitely right!'.

But yeah I feel like sometimes people end up searching for the right technique, or tutorial, or brush set or whatever that will finally make them be able to do the thing they want to do, and then they get frustrated when it still doesn't come. To go with a construction example, Loomis' books have always been pretty popular, but people misunderstand that just reading a book won't give you a skill. and drawing a circle with some lines on it doesn't necessarily = construction. Like the construction has to be happening in your head. It's a concept. I bring that up specifically because I have a bunch of old sketchbooks full of those, I just thought that's how you draw heads idk. Ya fake it till you make it though, i guess.

We have probably 100 times more art instruction floating around now, but 90% of it is not very good, and like you said, how do you even know what is good at this point

Agreed 100%

That study does look shockingly like Ted Cruz, just because of having less jawline definition. But it is nice and chunky, and the handling of the hard and soft areas in the hair and head is really nice.