Face Studies – 07/02/2023
© 2023 Martin BSome more practice with the Loomis Method. Gave myself more time to work on these (10 minutes each) as I found rushing them in class mode was being too stressful and unhelpful to seeing progress.
I decided to try out my charcoal pencil for this but as you can see as time went on the pencil became less sharp so I worked with what I had for time.
1 of them went quite wrong and started again, looked like a bald lady gaga... I think the harsh shading betrayed how she actually is meant to look.
Poses 1 2 and 4 went much better though. (Top left, top right and bottom left)
Hello again, Martin B. Nicest and greatest performance on your Loomis faces and heads of many more different faces and expressions. Greatest job on your fluidity and lines of rhythm in your heads and facial expressions. Therefore, there is still the fact that you're getting to be too hardest on yourself. In quick sketches, you can't get it accurate all the time, for you could and would just aim for the caricature and looseness of the lines and shapes. How would you like to please keep working with non-graphite pencils like carbon pencil, with 105 minutes of 5 minute face and expression poses, all done from your underhanded position, and from your non-dominant hand?
The logic behind this is because, your understanding and control of exaggeration and caricatured whimsy of various heads and faces can, shall, and in the future, will have improved fairly exponential. So for most details, please refer to Drawing From The Artist Within by Betty Edwards, as you can and will refer to the 1 minute sketch exercise, as also featured in Shamus Culhane's book, Animation From Script to Screen, available at your local secondhand bookstore.
Let's hope they've worked out.