Light post this week.
I'd planned to spam up here a ton of images of cavemen, because that's mostly what I've been drawing this week (as part of Extinction)-- and I really have taken up pencil this week more than I have in months. Since the 50 faces assignment, probably.


But my best ones, as you can see, are utterly cartoony. I did some more realistic ones, but they lack charm.

So what I'm going to do here is put up two images of a T-Rex skull that I drew, and do a little compare-and-contrast.
The first one was a composite of two references, a skull reference and someone's life-sized sculpture. Because its from reference, the proportions are generally right, and I was able to capture a lot of details. I think it looks reasonably neat, particularly on paper where the line-quality is less blown-to-hell. However, it's also completely twisted, and the perspective on it is totally, utterly wrong. I didn't understand the shape I was drawing, and it shows.


This one I'm actually much more proud of, despite its simplicity. Using only the first one as reference, I broke the shape down into a clearer series of simple plane-changes. It's completely structural, and I think it's actually a lot better in terms of technique than the early one, even if it's not quite as refined.

Mildly late on this post (still before Tuesday's class, I should be OK)-- so I'll see you in less than seven days, this time.

-ALD