Study group - head and neck 4

This week’s study group exercise instructions went in two very different directions. We could either do last week’s rendered heads again, including lessons learned, or if we wanted to elaborate and abstract things, Kenzo included links to some challenging videos about 2d shape design and composition theory. I watched those and thought “this seems like a level of thinking I’m not quite ready for.

I did try to simplify some of these shadow shapes, but I still find myself chasing likeness above all. I am really enjoying the process of “carving” the faces out of the abstract head models. Because I got feedback last week that I was doing a little shifting of faces to make the sides more symmetric, on this week’s Kenzo head page, I included center lines.

8 wireframe model “Kenzo heads”, used as the basis for the rendered heads

In addition to the Love Life Drawing portrait references, I included Ralph Ineson and Aftyn. Both are great fun to draw. I enjoyed this exercise and want to keep practicing drawing these smaller head shapes.