03-03-2023, 06:23 AM
Great sketchbook, I loved your material studies, and those vegetables are so vibrant!
In that second study the gesture is great, but you deviated from the ref for the head and I'm not sure if it's just a landmark placement mistake that you had to run along or if you're struggling with head construction. If the second, it might be helpful to think of it not as a head growing out of a face but as a ball with a face attached on it.
Well, not a ball, most faces work better with an egg (in green).
For this angle it's easy then to bring a central line down to the chin and connect it with the jaw. You can then locate other landmarks (eye sockets, nose base, bottom of the cheekbone, and ear hole there) and start to add features and mass from there.
In that second study the gesture is great, but you deviated from the ref for the head and I'm not sure if it's just a landmark placement mistake that you had to run along or if you're struggling with head construction. If the second, it might be helpful to think of it not as a head growing out of a face but as a ball with a face attached on it.
Well, not a ball, most faces work better with an egg (in green).
For this angle it's easy then to bring a central line down to the chin and connect it with the jaw. You can then locate other landmarks (eye sockets, nose base, bottom of the cheekbone, and ear hole there) and start to add features and mass from there.