Hello everyone,
My name is Jeremy, I have been lurking here for a really long time! I used to sketch all the time when I was in high school (never very good). Then I joined the military which really sapped my drawing and creative talent with no time at all to work on anything. Now 4 years later I am forcing myself to spend as much time as I can on drawing to regain my talent.
so… on with the sketches!
Reading some Hogarth’s trying to get some anatomy down! Most ref’d somewhat from the book.
Hi
great start!
It seems a lot of your sketches look a bit skewed?
Anyway,
looking forward to seem more!
Hi …Jeremy …
I know what you mean, about the military sapping your creative juices… :eek: …been there…
You might want to do the skull exercise to start with…it is in this forum somewhere…will give you a greater sense of the actual bone structure that underlies the features of the face. You can also buy a nice life size plastic skull in most art stores…they make them really nice now, with alot of accuracy and detail…I found a real nice one that I use as refference, at a joke shop years ago…If you get one, do drawings of it from all different angles…Once you master and understand the skull, and all of it’s ins and outs, …you will see a vast improvement in every face you do, because you will know what is under that skin, and what is causing the face to be the way it is, besides the effects of the muscles that is…you will start to search for the boney landmarks on the face right from the start of your drawings, and this will make them that much stronger…
Anyway, GREAT to see you starting your thread…looking forward to seeing your progress in it,… …
…I’m sure there are a lot of people in here who will be more than happy to help you out on the journy that you have entered into …SO KEEP POSTING …
Below is the link to the skull exercise, in case you might be interested in doing it… …better to work from a plactic model if you can, rather than from a photo…just my personal opinion though
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=199&t=259291
TAKE CARE
Glenn
Ok, so this first one was an attempt to address my drawings being skewed some. Before I would pretty much keep my paper straight and draw, with this one I turned it alot… to force myself to draw curved lines instead of “draw a nose” “draw an eye”… I think it helped though I still dont like the sketch and the shading is just… ick :eek: . But, it’s progress.
This is my first sketch of the skull exercise. Here i think I have no technique for shading, I just scribble to make it darker/lighter. I don’t know how to utilise different types like hatching or others I guess. Anyway, tear it apart! =)
Rebecca has made a nice tutorial on crosshatching.
You can find it in the tutorials subforum
This ones with charcoal… was a big piece which made some thicker lines then I wanted on some details.
Also posted on Rebecca’s shading thread in tuts… am I allowed to post here for more crits as well?
Your skull sketches are very good.
As for the shading, it is very good in the skulls but in the other picture, the one without ref, it does looks a bit weird, I think it’s because there is no softness between shadows and light (I don’t know if you understand what I’m trying to say, umm for example look at the way you shaded the cheekbones ) Also Shading has to do with form, for example if you try to shade a circle like you shade a square it wouldn’t look good ( It’s a bit extreme example but it works 
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