After 1.3 year of drawing from level 0 and another two months of perspective practice I’m finally in a place to do these exercises!! I’m so happy because FDD&I was the first art book I got and I was too much of a newbie back to even draw a circle. I had to discover axes and convergences and such. Anyway, I’ve waited for this moment, it’s one of my favourite books. :D

def a little confused on the neck and shoulders tilt, especially on #3 and #4.

The last one though!

Loving this so far. Thought I still have a few questions I would love to have answered before begining the assignment - Regarding the first step, how do you know where to place the lines that show the direction of the head in realation to the circle. Is there a specific rule about it? What part of the anatomy does each of them reperesent? - Proko says that cross countours should wrap around the entire form of an object, and I find it really difficult to do that without losing the direction of the browridge - The neck in general. Just like figure drawing, there is a stretch and a pincht, but I just struggle to see any of what I'm drawing in the actual reference.

I did the latest lesson references from memory, then correcting them later and checking my work

Great following along with this. Heads up (hehe) I think there's some extra video that starts at 18:40 where Michael is speaking, but there's no voice?

Following along!

Very difficult! Foreshortening is no joke and more often than not i would underestimate it

I think I'm getting confused about the axis line you use to determine the angle of the the cranial mass. In most of your examples so far, you've placed it at the relative center of the sphere, but in the 3rd example here you have it much more off center toward the front of the face. Does the placement of this guide matter, should it be aligned with a particular part of the head? In other examples it seems to align with the ear and back of the jaw but here it seems to align more with the edge of the chin.