Lily's journey to learning proportions

LilyNion

Heyo! So as you might've seen, I already have a thread here for my universe Luminé so I can get better that concept art. Then someone told me "Yo, you could work a bit on your proportions" and gave me the link to Wendy relearns how to draw. And I figured "Welp. I should do the same!". 

I don't own any anatomy books, nor have the money for this. So everything I'll learn is either from the internet, advice or studying my own face untill I get my hands on a book.
Please ignore my terrible writing. The last time I've tried to write on paper was a few months ago andd writing wasn't my strongest point!



So yesterday, day 1, I began to focus on the nose. Because one of my biggest issues is how to draw noses. You can pretty much see that once it becomes angled, I sit with my hands in my hair haha.

EthanBurnsides

Practice makes perfect they say, haha.

LilyNion

EthanBurnsides said:

Practice makes perfect they say, haha.

That's very true indeed! That's why I decided to start this. And drawing everyday might not be a bad idea, especially because I'm stuck in an artblock at the moment.

RN

Hello. Best of luck with your studies.
Depending on where you live you can find books in a local library.

As for online resources, there's this:
http://drawingbooks.org/index.html

DeviantArt has a lot of stock photography specifically for reference:
- http://daposes.deviantart.com/gallery/24199182/Face-and-Head
- http://robynrose.deviantart.com/gallery/29112759/Portraits-and-Headshots

And this website:
http://kitasite.net/b/musmob/head/
I found it through Pinterest which is another great place for looking for reference. But you'll need to create a Pinterest account otherwise you'll get a nagging screen.

LilyNion

RN said:

Hello. Best of luck with your studies.
Depending on where you live you can find books in a local library.

As for online resources, there's this:
http://drawingbooks.org/index.html

DeviantArt has a lot of stock photography specifically for reference:
- http://daposes.deviantart.com/gallery/24199182/Face-and-Head
- http://robynrose.deviantart.com/gallery/29112759/Portraits-and-Headshots

And this website:
http://kitasite.net/b/musmob/head/
I found it through Pinterest which is another great place for looking for reference. But you'll need to create a Pinterest account otherwise you'll get a nagging screen.

Thank you very much good sir or miss! Sadly enough we don't have any real local library close by. But these links are amazing!

LilyNion

There we go. Had to fix the brightness a bit, but I have it comes over clearly. 


Had a few day breaks, because of a very low stamina. Anyhow, this went quite nicely. Without any references, just watching my own eye. I did have a few doubts with where to place the lens and how the skin around the eyes would work once the eyes roll up. But that's for studying!

Right now I decided to tackle the basic features of the human face without any references, to figure out how much I know already and what I have to learn. Based on that I'll do research, search for references and fix my mistakes!