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Trying to improve my drawing. I have engaged the services of a young artist who will give me a few lessons in the bleedin obvious. The first thing we covered eas angled and.proportions.
This picture is my first attempt at carving up shapes and angles...itll be watercolours in the end. The face is devilishly difficult for my brain to grasp.
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I like that image and it is the sort of thing I would draw... having said that I would make things easy by dividing it into sections though that isn't the point of the exercise.
Mouth and face at that angle are tricky but you seem to have done that fairly well, in such an instance I would again use guides but of the standard artistic variety (centre line of face and axis of features with brow line, nose line and line through corners of the mouth.
You have also done well on the hand, the only thing that really looks wrong is the forearm I think... this would benefit by being a bit fatter inside the elbow and that crease defining it as more than a couple of parallel lines. I tend to always find myself exaggerating small curves like that on the inside of the arm and then I have to reign them back
A good exercise and one that I think I will find myself doing lots, but rather than trying to finish the image I would divide a page into quarters or something and try to sketch the basic image multiple times in ink (so no corrections can be made) and see if I can improve the accuracy each time and try to note the proportions. They say we learn most in the first 20% of a picture and that repetition is key to learning so this "iterative drawing practice" as it is called when you do pages of heads, features or figures is supposed to build skill quicker than a one at a time to completion way of working. It's something I intend to get around to because I know it will help even if it isn't the most fun thing in the world.