Med's Map

Recap + Assignment

Lesson by

Ahmed Aldoori

inMed's Map

325

Assignments 21

Recap + Assignment

Lesson by

Ahmed Aldoori

in Med's Map

325

Assignments 21

After careful analysis, draw as many skulls without reference as you can on one page. (Around 8-10)
Then check the reference to compare what you were missing. (Is the cranium in the right place compared to the jaw position? Is the nasal cavity too high? Too low? Is the mouth coming out too far, or not far enough?)
Then do one more page again without reference.
Then check the reference again to look for inconsistencies (it's OKAY to miss a lot of things!).
Repeat this until you have 10 pages of skulls. Your final page will very much look better than your first.

HARD MODE:

Draw 10 skulls, but STYLIZE the proportions. See if you can stretch and squish the proportions; elongated skull, big cranium, small mandible, so many combinations are possible!

EPIC MODE:

Paint those 10 skulls with a different angled light source for each.

GOOD LUCK

hArtMann

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1mo

Loved the combination of 3d form and gesture in this section, it really helped me get more accurate with skulls compared with the previous section.

Andreas Kra

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4mo

Here, I focused on practicing and repeating the drawing of skulls. To keep the practice interesting, I added some skulls of other animals for variation.

Andreas Kra

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4mo

Here are some additional skull studies drawn from imagination.

Stephen Clark

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4mo

Solid! Love the open mouth human skull on the second page! Strong studies.

Dennis Yeary

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4mo

they are better

Johnathan

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11mo

Painting app crashed, this was all that's left :(

Luke

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1yr

This was super cool, I can see how this approach could be useful to learn how to draw all kinds of things.

@elkad

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1yr

I don't want to see another skull again lol Looking back, I think the biggest improvement I made was the cranium and jaw proportion and positioning. I was also finding it easier to visualize the skull in more extreme angles. Still making mistakes (particularly with the face features), but I think I've gradually improved To check against reference I used 3d skull (thanks Nio@): https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/male-skull-1e54622b84ab46fd9f4518c47fa60929 For anyone interested in seeing my notes and comparison to reference: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BP-_OFwXHfBikhXLyK_b-HNfNM8_WqYm?usp=sharing (google drive cause this site compresses images quite heavily and it might not be readable)

@elkad

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4mo

Back after watching the week 2 critiques, I'm not doing new revisions cause the exercise itself involved self critiques and iteratively drawing. Its a bit tedious but this method is super useful self improvement

Tim Millea

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1yr

First 2 are from reference other pages are not from reference

Nio

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1yr

I feel I really leveled up this time around by taking my time, really processing all the information, and deciding each stroke. Spent 11.5 hours. My favorite is #63

Marco Sordi

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1yr

2023/7/14. Good evening everybody. Here's my assignment for this section. Thanks.

Stephen Clark

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1yr

These look great! You've got that 3/4 from below angle DOWN!

@handshakeblow

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2yr

here are my submissions for this assignment ^^, critiques are welcomed

Myles Goethe

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2yr

Started for two pages then I went on vacation only to come back and shake the rust off lol Overally I believe I finally have a handle on making skulls without references. There was alot of progression and regression cuz I was experimenting with my egg shape and guidelines.

Tony Vu

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2yr

Been busy with school, but I've still been practcing skulls whenever I get the time. I definitely feel like I've become a lot better at skulls. There are still plenty of areas where I can improve, but I think I'll move on now.

Nio

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2yr

Broke the monotony with some stylized stuff. Still looks rough but I didn't expect to master the anatomy with just this. This is a great exercise to manipulate the forms of the skull. I only feel like I have a basic understanding of it obviously so I will study from reference in the future. At least when I look at my first few pages I can see a TON of mistakes. That's a good sign that you've improved.. being able to spot mistakes and what not. This is tough so goodluck everyone (also should've blurred the shadow on the cranium in the last one.. completely forgot that tool existed whoops)

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Ahmed Aldoori

Art is the conveyance of fundamental human truth, regardless of barriers attempting to conceal it.