Leonor's Pencil and Paper

**Leonor** · April 11th, 2013, 04:31 AM

I was here before but I think I deleted my old sketchbooks. Too lazy to look atm.

I'd prefer problem specific criticism at this point. Please do red line stuff and show me how I can do whatever I did better.

I'm focusing on constructive drawing of heads (before values).

I really, really, really would like to be able to draw realistic faces consistently from life and imagination (so it's always the same person and not this guy who kinda could be the same person) and I'm yet to understand how to solve this problem.

I know about Loomis, planes and Rilley. I didn't find Rilley as helpful as it first looked but maybe I do it wrong. I usually use a simplified Loomis, then angles to measure relationships and knowledge of planes for structure. I still rush into details because I find I can't know if I'm doing it right until I see features.

Video where you can find the guy below.
His name is João Adelino Faria.

**MrFrenik** · April 11th, 2013, 06:34 AM

Watched the video, and I'd say your likeness is actually quite good. I'm not sure how far along you are in your studies just based off of this one post, but I would say that what would help your drawings immensely is a solid understanding of perspective. Get that down and you'll have no trouble at all drawing whatever you'd like to. Keep posting and good work.

**Leonor** · April 11th, 2013, 10:26 AM

MrFrenik: Do you use technical perpective with head construction?

**MusicMetalHead** · April 11th, 2013, 08:07 PM

Looks like you've captured the likeness pretty well to me. If you're uncomfortable with your knowledge of the head, perhaps bang out a bunch of quick studies of simplified heads? Like some Loomis planes or Asaro heads.

**Leonor** · April 12th, 2013, 10:32 AM

MusicMetalHead: Do you own an Asaro head? If so, would you be willing to film it for me in a soft light? Rotating it, tilting it, etc.

1st drawing below is more of the same guy from this video. These studies came out worse as likeness is concerned.

2nd drawing is an invented guy from imagination.

**RissaKay** · April 12th, 2013, 10:42 PM

Welcome! It's lovely to have a new member, and I really love those heads you're doing!

**Leonor** · April 14th, 2013, 03:35 AM

RissaKay: Thanks for the warm welcome. I'm not exactly new, though. I'm one of those quitters who returns.

1st drawing: I'm obsessing over this news anchor. Hahaha! I still fail him a lot.

2nd drawing: Other news anchors from live TV (without pausing).

**Yemi775** · April 14th, 2013, 02:17 PM

Nice man, seems like you have a good grasp of anatomy keep the updates coming.

**Leonor** · April 20th, 2013, 10:44 AM

Yemi775: Thanks! It's more knowledge of construction and planes and paying attention how things look from the outside than a deep knowledge of anatomy. I always have a weird sense of guilt when studying anatomy. I look at a skull and always think: this was a person once and here am I drawing better at this poor bloke's expense.

The following scans are among the best studies from the past week. I tried to draw a few of the people studied from memory, like the news anchor, but it didn't go well at all.

1st Drawing: The same journalist/ news anchor as in previous posts (João Adelino Faria) while interviewing a political commentator here. By the way, I do not know or care for these people's political affiliations, I'm interested in faces only! I was trying harder not to focus on details/ finish this time and pay attention to proportions/ relationships.

2nd Drawing: Portuguese Jesus (actor Diogo Morgado) from Youtube video stills. I noticed if I get the eyes of a person right other mistakes are more negligible as likeness is concerned.

3rd Drawing: Priest from Woodkid video I love You (model Matvey Lykov) which sounds/looks awesome but spreads evil romance memes. I've found a video of this guy smiling so I'll work on that next.

**Leonor** · April 21st, 2013, 04:23 PM

My smiling Matvey study didn't go well so I took a break from his face.

1st Drawing: Timothy Kelleher. I like his profile but then he turns his face and it's a triangle.

2nd Drawing: Young Iain Glen. Some kind soul posted a scene from The Fear. I hope more scenes are posted as there isn't many content of young Iain on YouTube.

**Leonor** · April 22nd, 2013, 04:48 PM

1st and 2nd Drawings: More Iain looking evil. That short The Fear video alone will give me lots to study from. The lighting is making it both challenging and informative.

3rd Drawing: Smiling Matvey from this video. I'm linking just before the smile. The first sketch is from two days ago the other one is from just now. They're both bad but I'm a bit blind to what corrections I need to make to make it better. I'll try again tomorrow or in a few days.

I started reading Joseph D'Amelio's perspective book so there might be some perspective studies soon.

**Leonor** · April 24th, 2013, 02:41 PM

Model Tobias Brahmst

**Trixtar** · April 28th, 2013, 03:10 AM

Damn you're good with those faces!
-Something I really wish I could do too.

PS: Also like your comic

**Leonor** · May 18th, 2013, 04:12 AM

Trixtar: Thanks! Not "damn good" yet but slowly getting there. The comic will have a reboot, I got a few scenes in mind.

1st. A study of model Tobias lowering and turning his head from video.
2nd. Tobias.
3rd. Another study of happy woodkid priest I can't get right.
4th. Model which is quite masculine despite the cute little nose and pouty lips. I failed, made him more girly than he is. From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jMZ8...59732829661A75 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mlBI...59732829661A75
5th. A few studied of model Nadja from videos.
6th. Quick study of Martin Gore from a Enjoy the Silence making of video. It would be cool to make ageing studies of pop band members. I have a few in mind already.
7th. A few original characters. Trying to make their facial differences more visible. They're not both browless and hairless, I did that just to focus on features. The one on the right should look male. The one on the left can be ambiguous.