/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2073303
skulls are pretty complicated to draw in 2-point perspective. I suggest you pay more attention to the vertical and horizontal relationships of the landmarks/obvious corners, making sure your drawing behaves under the same perspective rules as the reference. As well as using angles to check your drawing.

Of course 2d relationships aren't everything, you need to feel the shift, the planes of the nasal bones for example, and the direction of the plans of the muzzle.

It's easy to get near-sighted and figure that you're drawing a certain part of an image correctly. It's really important to relate the part to other parts, otherwise things can become inaccurate overall very quickly.

I've pointed out some real big problems that you need to learn to notice. If problems like this exist the drawing will be very off. The angle of the jawline needs to be steeper. (marked at 1).

the bottom contour of the cheekbone is very off and is causing problems, as well as the top contour.

The corners of the eye sockets must be respected. In your reference they're fairly parallel and this needs to be maintained in your drawing. You also need to learn to simplify the curved and complicated contour of the receding cheekbone. You need to see that the direction is mainly down-right, not down-left.

Watch the contour of the muzzle/mouth. You don't need to copy the contour to get this right, but the mouth really protrudes quite a lot, like a half-orange(for all human skulls).

Seek out corner relationships like the red line I drew. This explains some proportional problems.

I could redline to show the horizontal/vertical misplacements, but I don't want to do too much, and you yourself can check them as well.

If you can't see angle relationships that well, you should use your pencil to measure angles. Proko has some videos on youtube about it. Try out this practice both while digitally drawing and while drawing traditionally, and your intuitive sense for angle will also improve.