/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>1701687

I think with your arms dont be afraid to have them actually touch the side of your human. When you relax your arms at your side, they do touch your body. In your drawings they seem to appear positioned awkwardly away from the body with this kind of gap.

Also there are a lot of problems with your picture on the bottom right. I'm assuming you watched the Sycra video on foreshortening which is why you are using the spring thing for the arms. But yours are going big to small where it should actually be the opposite (the subject becoming closer to you) and is small to big. As well as your facial structure is pretty off and the eyes are located way too far up her head.

There seems to be two ways of going about the start of a drawing shapes, or contour. Yes, they go hand in hand, but drawing contour does not involve erasing overlaps of shapes, but is obviously less accurate as a result (shapes meaning full shapes, not just the parts that can be seen in perspective)

tl;dr: do you draw all the shapes of your whole drawing, then erase, or do you just draw the contour?

So, do I need to learn how to draw perfect circles before I can practice drawing a head?

Because in every professional tutorial I see, they get to start with a perfect base. But since I can't even draw a circle correctly, I feel like my drawing is going to suffer a lot, anatomy wise.

Wat do?

>>1507082

Absolutely. It's great to be able to have a nice discussion on /ic/ without someone yelling >LOOMIS or >Muh Style.


On that note, to further validate the point that spheres are the base of organic forms and a solid understanding of them can ground a painting; here's a sketch by Andrew Loomis practicing basic head composition with a sphere.

So I just started reading Loomis, "drawing the hands and face"
I'm already running into problems
I'm having an issue drawing the head tilted up and down
Loomis says that the head is divided into three equal sections (bottom to nose, nose to brow, brow to hairline), plus the extra bit where the hair is
This is easy for me to understand and measure when the head is turned ,but facing forward
However, when the head is tilted down or up, I can no longer use the three even measurements
This is because the bottom two sections (below browline) are on a flat plane, while the section from the browline to the hairline is on a rounded surface
I can see a possible solution by encasing the structure of the head in a rectangle, drawing the three evenly spaced lines on it, and then lining up the rounded hairline with the third line one the rectangle
tl;dr can someone please help me draw a tilted head using the methods of loomis?