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..

Thank you so much for the critique as well as the detailed demos!

Thank you Stan for the critique on my assignment and the video, it was very interesting.