The Ear + Assignment
The Ear + Assignment
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The Facial Features

The Ear + Assignment

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The Ear + Assignment

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Based on the wireframe analysis method shown in the video, study the images provided in the same way. Feel free to do this with images of your own choosing. It's VERY important to be slow and careful, so that you internalize the forms bit by bit, which WILL require repetition! Nobody memorizes it right away. 


  • HARD MODE: 
    Nose - choose one reference image, zoom into the nose, and paint it 8 times with 5 minutes per painting
    Mouth - choose one reference image, zoom into the mouth, and paint it 8 times with 5 minutes per painting
    Eye - choose one reference image, zoom into an eye, and paint it 8 times with 5 minutes per painting
    Ear - choose one reference image, zoom into the ear, and paint it 8 times with 5 minutes per painting
    (That's 32 little paintings, good luck!)

  • EPIC MODE: 
    Create four paintings that you spend at LEAST 30-60 minutes on; 
    • Crop of a nose
    • Crop of a mouth
    • Crop of an eye
    • Crop of an ear

      GOOD LUCK
Newest
@oobleck999
Assignment done! Not great with timers...
Ian Aaron Fuentes Sejas
Hard at the beginning but worth it.
hArtMann
5mo
After the 5 minute paintings, it really felt relaxing to do the ones with min time instead of max time.
Lyn L.
10mo
Patrick Bosworth
These are freakin wonderful! Great job!
@elkad
1yr
Finally done! Feedback is welcome :)
@elkad
8mo
Back after watching the week 3 critiques, the main take aways for me were: * first and foremost make the paintings read well, this may involve deviating from the reference or accentuating certain features * make the light and shadow families obvious and readable, start by simplifying the big value groups and work your way to smaller ones * be thoughtful using highlights and don't over do it I did some paintovers of my assignment, I notice the chin area of the 5 min paintings were a little sloppy and not reading well. I upped the contrast on the cropped features to make them pop. I also tried painting a marble sculpture as an exercise for simplifying value groups, I found it pretty helpful
Johnathan
1yr
Assignment submission, happy to take critiques
Bill Burroughs
Here are some of my 5 minute paintings. I really like the repetition of his lessons. I feel doing a bit of self critique between them helps. I find hair to be very difficult. Critiques are welcome.
Luke
1yr
I misunderstood the epic mode, did roughly 3-4 30-90 minute paintings of each topic. I figured doing the epic mode might help me get more out of hard mode, so I'll be doing those shortly.
Luke
1yr
I think it did help. I also feel that I need to practice mouths more
Nio
2yr
Along with this assignment, I followed Naranbaatar Ganbold's Painting Facial Features tutorial. I highly recommend it. I memorized the forms of the nose, mouth, and eye in-depth thanks to his teaching. I also feel confident enough with the fundamentals to look for a style. The colored paintings are my attempt at finding something I like. Critiques appreciated.
Marco Sordi
2023/7/22. Good morning everybody. Here's my last assignment for this section. Thanks.
Marco Sordi
2023/7/20. Good morning everybody. Here's my assignment for the eye chapter. Thanks.
Marco Sordi
2023/7/18. Good evening everybody. Here's the part for the mouth. Thanks.
Marco Sordi
2023/7/17. Good evening everybody. Here's my 5 minutes 8 noses. Thanks.
Marco Sordi
2023/7/16. Good evening everybody. Here's my tracing of the nose from the attached references.
@bleuy
2yr
'Epic mode' - focusing only on noses for now. Will do the mouth next. I found that when i blocked in the shapes even a little bit, it was easier to paint. Feel like each nose improved from the previous.
Johan Kurniawan
Brandon Miele
Any sort of critique would be much appreciated!
@morelock
2yr
Besides the angle being a bit off, the ear was a little wonky feeling. Maybe the values were too light but not sure
@morelock
2yr
Learned a ton in this.
@morelock
2yr
I thought this one came out pretty nice, can already see large improvements
@morelock
2yr
This one was tough, lots going on.
@morelock
2yr
The reflection of light on the right side (left of the face) I struggled with on this one. Thoughts/suggestions?
Tony Vu
2yr
Here's my assignment. My understanding of the human face has improved a lot from these studies. Definitely something I'm going to practice moving forward.
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