LESSON 5 by WICKS (David Omar)

I'm falling a bit behind, but I'm still with you all. Still having trouble with angles. My brain keeps telling me to not push the angles, only to see that I should have gone a bit further. It's alright, I'm still having a hard time getting the head shape to look solid on the inks. I think it will get better if I just practice.

Critiques and tips welcomed and appreciated.

-David Omar

Lesson 5 by Nicolas (concluded)

A continuation of my Lesson 5 attempts, I finally got as accurate as possible. Through all my previous lessons (not to be confused with attempts), I drew all the eggheads tiny just to save space on the paper. I then decided to draw larger, to see what happens. I'm quite proud of it, because you can physically capture the tiny subtleties in the egghead, and prepare you for any future larger scale drawings. 

My Original

Overlay

All my previous attempts.

Critiques/tips welcome.

Lesson 5 by Nicolas (so far)

Hi folks. These are what I've whipped up for lesson 5. I know they're not perfect, but I'm gonna do more soon. Critiques welcome.

Lesson 5 by Caleb

I did some Halloween inspired draws. Here's lesson 5:

lesson 5 patrick

UPDATE: latest lesson 5 with inking.
I noticed his eyes aren't as crossed in this lesson. And I find Blair's approach to the far cheek in this one very interesting, I wonder if there's a science when it comes to "cheating" like that? What do you guys think?


(1st post)
Here is my lesson 5. I'm gonna do some more tomorrow

Lesson 5 by Jeremy

First of all, I have to thank whoever suggested drawing within a window box (I think it was Gabriele but not sure). It made drawing my initial oval much easier, which ultimately lead to a better end result. This attempt at Lesson 5 is by no means perfect, but it is still much better than any of my previous first attempts. I also have to thank everyone who suggested we draw "big". I'm used to drawing relatively close to the size of the image I'm copying, but drawing bigger helped out a great deal.

I apologize for the delay in posts. I let work get the better of me for the past few weeks so I've been a little slack. Hope everyone is enjoying this blog as much as I am. I can already see that people are making progress and that there are some really talented artists out there.

Take care everybody, and good luck.

Lesson 4 & 5 by Hammerson

Two lessons for the price of one :)
Left: construction, Center: cleaned-up pencil version, Right: comparison

These are my best attempts so far, but I don't consider them as the last word on both lessons. Again, I made a mistake with the upper lip, similar to the one I've done on the lesson 3.



Lesson 5 was particularly hard to do, and it's important to realize in both examples that the egghead character doesn't have the features simply painted over his face. These are the real "fleshy" features, and they must stick out to give a solid 3D feeling to the viewer from every possible angle.

LESSON 5

Be aware that the first egg shape has guide lines that don't match the final.  It's been a constant  since we started the angle lessons.  The positive is that you have to work harder to figure out where everything goes, which will help train your eyes quicker.

-David Omar