Portraits Week II

This week went a lot better, I will say right off the bat.  I don't know if I was just in a better mood to draw or what, but I was able to tackle the unconventional view with relative ease, with Amy helping me with only a few parts.  Here are what those were:

First, the hair.  Enough said, haha!  Well, Amy suggested I try to blend more like I did with Sara's 3/4 back portrait and so I tried.  I like the final result, but I will go back this morning before class and try to define some more of the hair because it still looks a little blocky and the overlapped piece of hair is super dark, which is great, but I would want the rest of the hair to be a bit more shaded as well so the transition is not so harsh.

Second, the ear ended up being WAY far away from the face so in all, her cranium was abnormally large as if gravity was pulling her hair and ear down and away!  So I drew in more hair and redrew the ear in its proper position and it pulled the composition together beautifully.  I was thinking there was something terribly wrong with the structure and it turns out that is exactly what it was.  I am so glad Amy caught and I was able to fix it in class quick before it ended so I could still have the model to do it.  Is this new ear as good as my original?  Not nearly.  I was very proud of my original ear and disheartened that I had to redraw so it just did not turn out the same.

3/4 front

After this unconventional view, I took a look at my two previous drawings and decided I desperately had to go back to my 3/4 front view and fix the shading, it just didn't look like I drew it at all, the style was totally unlike mine and even though I really wanted to explore other styles this semester, I don't think this particular one was successful.  Hopefully it looks a little better, I want to go back
and fix the transition from neck to jaw line.  It, like other aspects of my drawings, ended up too harsh and they almost look disconnected and overlapping, when in fact they do not do that on the live model.