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@csen
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3mo
added comment inCritique - 8 Step Method
Any advice on practicing these efficiently? been doing an hour of these every day but havent felt much improvement.
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3mo
My best advice for practicing efficiently is already here in the steps. If you can, try and pinpoint where your getting stuck or which step is holding back overall improvement and focus there.
did these too, the eye socket indentation just never really makes sense... But more interested in getting critiques for the ones above!
@csen
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4mo
been waiting for this one! Really puts the others more into perspective as well. Not really able to develop the eye socket in 3d like you did for the front view at the end, but I'll assume we'll go more into that in later lessons
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4mo
Ooh nice one, csen! Yes, we're gunna develop the eye more in a later lesson :) stay tuned, and keep making more awesome drawings!
Tatiana Kopteva
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5mo
Thank you again for another great lesson! I'm a little confused about sunglasses versus the bean, how do they match each other? Is it the subject of the next video?
When you first posted these, I tried recreating them and got nowhere near your level. Practiced them obsessively over the last 10 days, and they're still challenging but soooo much better now.
Thanks for the inspiration!
Julian Blake
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4mo
Holy Smokes, Mr @Michael Hampton I am a bit ashamed to ask this question after all the lessons and exercises (which I have seen and done. I'm just missing the latest one) but I am still confused with the brow line, and the length and width of the jaw. I mean, is there like a "landmark" for the eyebrow position, like the center line of the sphere in the Loomis method? I understand the "glasses" metaphor for the angle, but I mean the initial placement. How high or low in the ball is the initial brow line? How do I know if I'm placing it correctly? In the exercises I was just guessing based on the reference. Regarding the length, you explained is 1/3 of the total space of the head in the front, but how about in the extreme poses? How do I know if I am shortening or lengthening my lines too much? Is there a point of reference, a landmark in the ball, or in those angles or something to measure? Same thing with jaw width. Do I just guess by eye? I hope you or anyone in the community can help me. Thank you so much in advance.
The brow line is very similar to the equator around the cranium.
The major axis of the brow line should be roughly in the center of the circle.
I HIGHLY recommend that, instead of trying to find logic here, you just do 50 or so sketches of heads from different angles and verify that the brow is roughly on the equator.
These rules are not precise, even in the breakdown I did below you can see how none of the lines are exact. Just an oversimplification that can help you break down each individual pose.
You can also draw over references and add the guidelines if you're really struggling.
@mischawilliams might also be helpful for you
@csen
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5mo
Thanks so much for the detailed critique! You mentioned a couple of times that the tilt line and the line for the front of the face should be parallel, same for the brow / chin line. Doesn't that break perspective / foreshortening? And especially for the side of the face, I would expect it to have to go inwards, as the chin is more narrow than the brow.
the other thing that I find hard to replicate is the "center line". Would it ideally be parallel to the "tilt line" or is there room for movement here too as perspective shifts?
@csen
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5mo
Asked for help
redid these 3 because I didn't get the positions right on the first try. Still not 100% on the chin length for the middle one..
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5mo
You're in luck! The Extreme Poses video is coming out today!
