I'm trying to recreate your procedure but I find that my brush strokes look terrible and flat. Is it something with my brush?

@Michael Hampton really appreciate the critiques especially the second critique. I want to improve my understanding of the planes of the facial features. I have watched all the course videos a few times but I am still not quite understanding them. Do you have any other resources that can help me grasp this? I am really enjoying your method of teaching by the way. I have all 3 of your courses here on Proko and would enroll in anything else you put on here. Thanks

This is great lesson since comics is what i really want to do. So should I always do gestures on my comic book thumbnails before I do boxes for structure?

Advice on the sequence of learning between gesture, anatomy and construction. Does this course help with anatomy? Or would that be a prerequisite. Thank you.

I’m about to embark on this project but before I do that, I did a head trying to put in everything I learned so far, adding more detail on top of the schematic. A lot of classes jump suddenly in difficulty but this gradual buildup has been incredibly helpful (at least for my brain that requires a fair bit of handholding) and I think it shows in the different stages of practice. Still have a looong way to go but I’ve been struggling a lot with placing the features and it’s nice to get closer and not feel like you’re wildly guessing. That stage where you learned the loomis method but then add features flat on top is so frustrating to go through. so being able to locate the brow line with a system instead of measuring everything part by part has been a game changer.

I believe I did well on these invented poses. I love the second especially. Feedback would be appreciated!!

How frequent are feedbacks usually given?

Okay, I think I’ve got the method down and it’s time move on to the features, how they sit on the face, refining proportions and perspective as I go along. Tested myself from imagination a bit (though they’re much wonkier than the couple referenced ones for now). One really cool thing about this system is that when trying Asaro heads (or anything referenced) they’re no longer proportionally wildly off like before, when I had to correct and correct.

I gave it a go but this was HARD for sure. The far right is where I started with a reference from the interwebs. The others I tried to invent. I can see how it gets your brain thinking "how do I solve this?" instead of just copying from reference. It was fun though!