Practice by lending a helping hand

The david eye

Doing some digital sight size of Michaelangelo's David's eye.  3/4 and front

Each one was about 10-15 minutes.  I practiced only 3 values to really make it read. There is still some flatness in the eyeball and not sure how to really make it feel deep.

Thanks dad!

Scream?

Practice: Surprised!

Still practicing black and white values to make the forms read.  This one I wanted to give the character a sense of surprise.  I raised his brow and also opened his mouth a bit.  I also raised his eye brow to further the effect of surprise.  What do you think?  Do you buy it? 

 After looking at it now, I've realized that to compose this a bit better with the idea of surprise I should tilt his shoulders down to the left.  Why?  Because if I did, it would look like he is on his way someplace and the reaction behind him is making him more surprised.  So it is as if he is caught even more off guard.

Pushed pose.  You decide.  Which looks more surprised?  

Practice Facial Expressions

Wanted to try some facial expressions

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The nights drawings

Here I wanted to practice drawing 1 head.  I then changed and distorted the 1 head into 4 other permutations.  I liked the fat one and so I designed it below

Similar thing.  I designed 3 face shapes and then took the one I liked and turned it.  I tried an interesting technique.  I projected the 2D shape onto the front plane and then built the structure from the 2D plane. It sorta worked and sort of did not.