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Updates! For Inktober #16 I did minute-long faces:
Then for Inktober day 17 I did 30 second faces again:
I wasn't always able to capture the face shape, but I think I'm getting better at facial expressions! I was also trying to draw larger faces for both days.
I'm not sure whether my goal should be to get the face shape down in 30 seconds, or to get better at distinguishing between various people. I try to capture unique features in this time, but the faces aren't always easily identifiable with particular models. Thoughts?1 1I recently became aware of the figure drawing tutorial on this site and it was extremely helpful for me! Kim says that she’s working on having similar things for faces and hands/feet, but until then I wanted to see if anyone had any favorite techniques of their own for faces in particular.
Today I tried doing some faces in 30 seconds and had a lot of fun! My technique is super basic, though:
1. Draw a circle/oval to approximate shape as best you can
2. Draw two lines to demonstrate the direction the person is looking to
3. Fill in facial features
4. If there’s time left, refine the face shape
Here are the results from this morning’s practice:
I’d love to get your feedback, or any advice on techniques that you find useful! My goals are: (1) increased speed in capturing expressions accurately, (2) eventually be able to compose expressions on my own, or with less references.-
Littlewaysoul
edited this post on October 15, 2018 9:13pm.
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Littlewaysoul
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Here are the pages from when I worked through the tutorial!
And then I went on to try 30 second figures using that technique. Here they are:
Thank you for that advice, Torrilin! I love my brush pen, so I will definitely have to try that out sometime. Do you have any photos of your use of the tutorial technique with a brush pen? I'd love to see how you build on the line of action quickly to form shapes and shadows!-
Littlewaysoul
edited this post on October 14, 2018 3:14pm.
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Littlewaysoul
edited this post on October 14, 2018 3:14pm.
I'd love to get some feedback on these! I'm pretty new to gesture drawing, so I'm kind of winging this. I'd love to hear what you think!
The first four pages are from October 2nd and the last two are from yesterday, October 12:
(By the way, I usually add the color in afterwards, either in highlighter or digitally, to brighten things up and have fun! But that's not included in the 2 minutes of figure drawing).-
Littlewaysoul
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edited this post on October 14, 2018 1:33pm.
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Littlewaysoul
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Reason: Trying to figure out how to embed images! I think I finally got it. :)
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