faces - 13 sept 2018

by J Canard, September 13th 2018 © 2018 J Canard
Done as part of a practice session with poses of 60 seconds in length. My current goal is: Better understand human anatomy, so I can render imagined poses
Line
Nice jCanard! these poses look good for 60 second poses, I see you've got knowledge of the underlying parts of the face. Try focusing on the general proportions and placements during 60 second poses. People have critiqued me on this: I try to draw a face to make it look like a face and not actually building a good foundation for a future drawing. So try thinking about this as a building block for a future drawing and not aiming for a finished result (I'm abit vague - I know! :3 so tell me if you want to explain further)
J Canard
Hi Line !

Thanks for your feedback, it's much appréciated ;-)

I'll try to focus on placement then, in fact it's one thing I'm struggling with when drawing faces. When I practice, I feel frustrated when I make a face and it doesn't look like a finished one, but I'll try to overcome it
Polyvios Animations
Good evening J Canard, and welcome.

Nicer job on your stongest range of accuracy of expression and emotion of your faces and facial expressions. I think more that your goals are completely but totally on the right-er direction. I feel that these marks need the most experimentation on your own part. Would you like to go for 10 minutes of 30 second face and expressions, all stretched and squashed explicitly.

The reason is as a result, your facial anatomy will be less stiff and even more cartoonier, exaggerated, but expressive in their lines of action, balance, rhythms, and tempos of facial expressions. For most info, kindly look into the Jack Hamm book, Cartooning the Head and Figure, link right here, all so you can warm up to the faces and expressions drawn there.

Good luck even more from me.

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