Quote Originally Posted by SiuiS View Post
I don't know. Your learning style is so different from mine. The eye divot, the chin? Those are bony landmarks. you've drawn them before, I thought you had that.
No, I've done that. I didn't know that. I've become practised in looking at things and breaking it down into linework and drawing that, but there's a difference between that nice, theoretical, broadly applicable skill and more specific applications, especially where models are not used.

You say you don't know what a head is made of? Learn. This is just the outside stuff and how it forms. The skull, the meat, it's all important.
Having looked at a fair few skull anatomy drawings, I'm unclear how to apply those more than I have?

I suppose really I'm just disappointed. This is how I learned, but it took me years of slow acquisition. But neither of us can figure out something other than brute-force compilation method and then parse for decent results? I can't accept that. There has to be a better way.

Forgive the anatogonstoc dialectic process. I'm fully confident you know what you're doing, but you said yourself this feels like settling for what's okay instead of what's Thanqol.
Oh good, I'm up against theoretical Thanqol - my archnemesis!

My current thought is that while my process has been generally excellent for building a theoretical groundwork - not sticking to any one thing for any extent of time so I learn the fundamentals of drawing and linework in abstract, and thus have an inherently broad range - something as mechanical as a human face, which requires some degree of consistency between pictures, requires me to actually put the practise hours in. I've done a lot to build up a theoretical groundwork, but I also need some actual repetition to back it up.

I finally figured out why your dedication to dragons creeps me out by the way.
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Heh, why does that creep you out? It's true stuff, stuff worth living by and stuff I developed in parallel. Good to see Mr. Lee had a particularly beautiful articulation of it.

See, the dragon is my core ideal and image.The theory of the dragon is complete personal power. The dragon is self contained. The dragon fears nothing; wants for nothing; needs to achieve nothing. The dragon is free from restraint, from care, from the world. What remains is a choice.

I made a deal with a dragon when I was young; in a dream, I met her in an open field, frozen and shining with moonlight, and promised her that I would make her proud. It's the moment that made me a person; before then I was just anger, envy, fear and resentment. Afterwards I had an ideal.

Quote Originally Posted by Domochevsky View Post
Well, here's my challenge to you then... draw your next set of heads with shorn hair. 1mm tops. Varying angles. Let me see some hairlines.

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Now add varying hair styles in a new layer and color to these heads.
Will do!

Quote Originally Posted by Story Time View Post
...there are different types of learning. Some learn by thinking; others learn by physical motion. These two learning types influence the best methods to teach drawing from person to person.

Please read this for further information. Among the other roads mentioned are paths for internal and external thinking. Learning by motion or action is called kinesthetic learning...
This is all quite true, but it's also true that the best way to learn is a combination of techniques and engagement of multiple senses. Imagine the brain like a library with infinite storage space, and your memory is the index card. The more cross-references you add to that index card the easier it becomes to call to mind the appropriate memory. This is why mnemonics advocate coming up with brief phrases or rhymes to establish a clear memory, and why if you have a good idea and you're worried you're going to forget it you should say it out loud. The more levels you learn something on the deeper the knowledge will go.

Day 335: Grind #4

This was a brilliant idea, thank you Domo. It really helped me grock adding hair as an addition to the skull rather than a way of covering it up, and really assisted in the processing of new hair styles.

That said, overall skullshape quality wasn't amazing; I was short of references, so I attempted to eyeball the skull shapes of normally hair'd people. Anyone have a good collection of bald girls (who aren't all dying of cancer, because that's depressing)?

I'll do more practise tonight, if I haven't permanently lost my darned sketchpad.

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