Forum posts by Ritsumei

The Udemy Character Art School is specifically about doing imaginative drawings rather than observational drawings. I bought it a year ago, and I’m about halfway through, and have seen marked improvement in my observational drawing, and I’ve learned to do imaginative drawings, which I didn’t have a clue how to even approach when I started. Now, whipping up a sketch for the NPCs in my D&D games is a quick, pleasant way to practice. If the course isn’t 80-90% off the “full” price, wait for it: I got it for $10, which was a steal, and it seems to be regularly areound $20-25. Don’t pay the whole $300, lol.

For the study of face proportion, I like to work slowly, rather than with a timer. There are lots of YouTube tutorials on proportion, such as with the Loomis Method. Studying those, and participating in the 100 faces challenge (even though I’m only about half done) have done well for me to lay a solid foundation of what happens where on the head. Now that I’ve got that foundation in place, gesture sketching is helping me to bring the people to life. But before I’d studied the face and features, slowly and in depth, gesture sketching was just frustrating: rather than fixing my problems, it made them more obvious.