Week 3 Results: 15/100 Faces

Well this is rather embarassing....I started off super obsessed with this challenge 

but all these other projects seemed to get the better of me and I ended up taking

a bit of a break to present you with..not a lot of work. 

I was focusing strictly on black ethnicities, and found very little

guidance from my dear old internet. I found a nifty body type guide with a few helpful

hints, but overall, I ended up gathering photos after photos until I started to notice similarities from face to face. OF COURSE this is complete generalization, no one person looks like another, no country looks like another but overall I did manage to find a few "key" points to make these faces look like they were meant to and not like some whities who spend their days at the tanning salon..

You can enlarge this picture by right clicking it if you can't see all the notes. Hopefully these will help someone out there!

An Awesome Guide To Drawing Different Human Body Types

This artist has some awesome resources for drawing features and whatnot. Check out their whole profile!

Challenge 2: Ethnicity

I was initially considering making this one the facial expression challenge, and started working on that...but! I wanted to challenge myself so I decided to hit up different ethnic groups, only to realize I'm stuck in that drab "whitizing" everyone zone since I've never taken the time to properly study features of different cultures, save China. So...before we get to that, let's rewind and take the time to properly draw some major ethnic groups, then separate those further. Here's how I'm gonna go about this:

Here are the six major varying ethnicities, by that I mean heavily varying facial features between the six. Your first 50 or so drawings should consist of these, spread out between different age groups (aim for kids, adults, elderly)
Asian
Black
Middle Eastern
Caucasian
Latino
Aboriginal

For the next 30, pick certain variations of the major groups and try more drawings of them. Eg: Central Asians vs. Southeastern Asians...whatever you want. (My god its hard not to somehow sound offensive in this entry..)

These 80 drawings can be anywhere from line art to rendered shit like the one I did above, up to you.

And....for the last 20, go friggin crazy! Cartoonize (try not to get offensive here) in any styles and mediums you like. And here's the hard part. Do it from memory, not references.

Ready, set go!

Week 3 Results: Faux Hands 96/100

So....I'm gonna owe you 4 hands, but if I have to draw one more during the next month I'm going to put a bullet through my head. I was going hysterical during these last two studies, particularly the muscle ones. I don't mind anatomy at all, I love drawing large muscle groups and stuff but this. was. just. so. fucking. tedious. But it's done! Not exactly that ideal one week as I had planned but I got through it all and learned a hell of a lot. Now I'm going to stop ignoring hands at life drawing (once I get a conté stick longer than my pinkie nail...). I used two main resources for these studies:

Anatomy for Artists - Eugene Wolff

Drawing Dynamic Hands - Burne Hogarth