Study group - head and neck 2

My feedback on last week’s head drawings was humbling. My proportions were bad, my Loomis shapes were off. Advice basically came down to the idea that I’m not really ready to freehand sketch from reference for this stuff, and I should be doing a tracing stage in between. I’ve done that before. Draw your ideal abstract shapes directly on top of the reference, and then draw freehand from the abstracted version. It works. I know I’m good at it. I’m eager to move past that stage of my education, but in the interest of accelerating my growth, I’ll take that step back. Sometimes you have to go back to point C to get from B to A.

This week we had 4 diagrams of a simplified head and neck in various rotations to practice, and then we were to do 10 modified Loomis heads from the same 10 reference photos from last week. These look quite a bit more credible to me as the references than the last pass. Fingers crossed they pass muster!