New CPU new Me

 

Used reference on this one, thought I'd show my gesture process. Plan on rendering the skin for this one.

A good friend of mine sent me his old CPU which is like 3 years newer than mine, and mine was a Ryzen 2600 from 2018. Counter-Strike and Warframe feel so much better now, but best of all is the SNAPINESS that is my pc now. Things like settings or firefox load up within a second now, not seconds, feels alot comfier to use.

Also, I've been drawing everyday recently. Been doing some studies into lineart and draftsmanship and general so look out for that if you're interested.

Dodo's Conundrum

Definitely at the point where I can draw and paint in the way I want, but never end up making any finished piece. Don't know why, but here we are.

Blind to actractiveness

Despite what it seems, I actually used a lot in-picture perspective techniques to help make this head. I totally forgot and remembered how to use the elipse to find your 90 degree angles. Something about my faces just aren't right though, and I am going to get to the bottom of it. It just looks too stylized even though I was going for realism. I was thinking it was the lips since it's what I'm the worst at but after trying different lips I totally think it's anywhere from the nose to eyeridge region. Maybe it's just the line art selling it as not real since, well, people aren't lines. But that feels like a cop out for me, so tomorrow I will construct a bunch of my own heads and draw a bunch of real ones and compare.

No more blocky foreheads

 

Forgot that the eyeridge is not on a flat plane, and does a small curve instead. Smoother on females and more rigid on males, definitely help's the eyes feel circular. This one unlike yesterday was not from reference so I think I'm really getting a handle back on head construction. Also, the outside corner of the eye is farther back than the inside one. So if you look from underneath a face the eyes will be "pointing downward" from the nose, and if you look from up top, they will be "pointing inward". Helps sell a rounder, more human face in my opinion.

Need to draw more

 Been playing a lot of Counter-Strike 2 recently, I'm definitely rusty, but I can feel the 60hz monitor holding me back. Anyways, been doing some investigative work on drawing accurate facial proportions regarding with width and depth. Trying to find the 45 degree reference point's for the eye ridge so I can get a perfect square to help me decide how far back the ear should go. These sort of include it, I'll may show what I'm talking about later to help explain it. Also I'm still drawing, but probably about 1-2 hours a day on average.