After watching the demo, critique and doing a few more of level 2 exercises, I decided to do two attempts using these references. been practicing for 2 weeks….I hope the results are showing from everyday practice….😅 Will continue to do these as I move through the course. Looking forward to the next topic now 😃

Did a few more practice after watching the demo, and critique. This is fun and it takes a bit of brain power to concentrate to get the proportions at least close to looking good.

more boxes from the video I think I need to keep in mind relationships and do a bit more measuring

I always wondered how a box could help me draw people in perspective. I mean, the head is not a box! But now I understand. Thank you so much! This was a difficult exercise for me at times because I had to get the proportions, placement, etc., right. The portraits I did after watching the critique, I had to fix four times, starting over from scratch. I need to measure more, and my portraits are improving step by step, but I’m still not satisfied with the result. I don’t see the 3D head that Stan shows in his demos and critiques. I just got the idea that the Asaro head might be helpful. Does anyone have more tips for better portrait drawing? I don’t know why, but my proportions in portraits are completely off at first, and I always have to make a lot of adjustments. It’s like I’m losing my ability to see properly when it comes to this topic

Here are my sketches after watching the demo video. I happy to see an improvement in my perspective after this exercise.

There’s a glitch my work was posted 4 times . Sorry everyone , dont know how to fix it .

Really had a lot of fun this time post critique . Im happy that i can now understand how to see the boxes in organic forms . My first try was messy as I didn’t know what to look for . Im also happy that in real life im looking for shapes and simple forms . Thanks Stan loving the course .

Here's the last set of practices before moving on to 3pp. I definitely feel like my skills are drawing head boxes have improved, but there's still much room for improvement. But I'm definitely done with drawing heads for the moment.

Heyo :) Tried my hand at these exercises and found them quite challenging. Especially number 9. After watching the demos I then realized that I struggle with foreshortening and I think I tend to make the faces too wide. Also I realized now that I seem to forget to align the smaller shapes like the lips, jaw and ears with the direction of the corresponding plane. Any critiques would be welcome! Have a good day :)

My attempts after watching the demo and critiques. I did 07, 13, 02, 09, 10, 15

One last Marshall head and I’m ready to go!

From a top view, the rear of the human head is wider than the front of it so I believe a "keystone" box top was intended to show it - hence the diverging lines.

Some proportion issues among other things. Not feeling confident about my progress if I’m being honest.

I saw it in the critique a few times. Is the center line of the box the center line of the face? I saw a few references where you could clearly see that one side of the front plane appears to be bigger than the other side.

Lv 1 Again. I tried drawing the Y Axis first to make it easier. Although I'm just noticing that some of my axis is off, but I'm going to commit to it anyway.

While watching the Level 2 demo and Critique videos, I tried the Level 2 project. When I see these pictures, I notice that they look less three-dimensional than how they look on paper. 

has proko done on camera reference 12 anywhere? i am scrubbed each video and i dont know if i missed it. I'm having a lot of trouble with it.

I must admit that I find this rather hard. Thinking of the head as a box and after seeing the critiques happy to construct a bit more within said box. I wanted to post at least 3 more heads after my initial 6 before moving on to the next lesson... I used about 10 to 15 minutes on each, with a bit extra on the one that is alone. I used blue for my initial sketch box and then red for the lines, but sometimes I forgot to do them in different layers in procreate so I erased some of the original lines...and switch to blue at some stage... oh well the wonders of digital in procreate... A good exercise. I will try and do it more often. Portrait 5 is a bit too wide. I think I needed to make the box narrower. The tilted head was hard. I barely found the box and started too early on the boxy contours, going backwards and forewards... Will watch the video again soon.

Took longer than I wanted but here are the rest of the portraits I said I'd do last week..