Quick Sharpie sketch (with blue pencil roughs) of Ringo Starr. Since I was stretching faces earlier, and had hypothesized that my quick sketching habit of having the pad in the lap was a bad angle, I tried to compensate by folding a tote bag to put on my knee to lift the page, trying to approximate a 90 degree angle. Let’s see how I did:
According to Photoshop, I missed a ~2 degree tilt to the head (or the head I drew was tilted, same difference) and the overall head was about 10% too wide – if you measure by trying to match the eyes-nose-mouth features in the drawing:
But there the head top and shirt collar are off. Trying to match those up doesn’t work very well, but matching the top of the head and the beard, we get something more like this, where the glasses and the top of the head line up, and, sort of, the beard, but the nose and mouth are pushed downward:
Still got work to do to get the proportions right. Sigh.
Drawing every day.
-the Centaur
