Recently practiced by attempting to apply the steps thus far to a stylized reference, I’m excited at the results since I’m ultimately looking to draw manga. Thanks to this course I’m seeing and analyzing art in a totally new and fun light! (Hopefully this was cool to post, I know everyone else were referencing real life photos…)

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After initial research on golden ratio in art, I can sort of get the concept of it but I'm a little lost in application when it comes to mapping out said composition according to the golden ratio you mention. Is there a @Michael Hampton preferred method of applying the golden ratio in your drawings? I ask because your method of head construction proportions is VERY easy to apply without thinking too much about the math (relative halves and thirds). Maybe a future proko video / lesson?

Follow along finishing up the other three, looking forward to further development of other features!

Following along and greatest anxiety comes around the keystone, really feels like if that is off to a certain degree then everything would fall apart. Another concern is the curve within the eye socket that relates to the canthal ligament and forms that beautiful spiral and inner plane. I’m not sure if there’s a specific landmark we should be referencing to ensure high wide or narrow that spiral is or where it tapers at the top and bottom of curve and how that plane develops. You do mention that ligament and made a rectangle around it however I’m unsure of how to go from there… Or, am I fixating on this part too much and we will go into better detail later?

Happy 4th of July!

Follow along attempt, looking forward to approaching this much more systematically in subsequent lessons!

Hi Michael and everyone, I need help with the ellipse around the eyebrow ridge & ears. In the examples below from class, my attempts at the ellipses were different than the demo's (See photos attached). I understand that the demo's ellipses are the way they are because the ear is below the brows. However, my thinking is that since the top of the head is visible in both examples, we're looking down from above. And if we're looking down, shouldn't the ellipses look like the way I drew them? I think I've been able to confirm this by finding out that this model's brows are actually higher than her ears in her front & side portraits. Let me know what you think. Perhaps I'm overthinking this when the exact look of the ellipse isn't super important... On a side note, I'm not too sure about the viewer's eye level in second portrait from class, where it seems we could be looking up her even though top of head is visible. I'm thinking maybe the eye level is somewhere between the nose & chin...What do you guys think? Often in portraits, it's hard to figure out where the eye level is.

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Struggling with 3/4 looking up perspective in terms of the chin, jawline, and neck gesture. Trying to figure out where the neck gesture meets with under the chin, or am I thinking of it the wrong way as in too precise?