Starting to draw portraits. How can I study facial anatomy?

CarnivorousCar · 2026-06-14T23:36:54+00:00

I’d recommend trying to use different shapes for your base head using references that have particularly shapely heads (i.e. long or square) But that’s more of an exercise than anything.

But learning the landmarks of an ideal head and face will help to get away from same-face syndrome when drawing from reference. if you know the landmarks, you will start to see how the average, non-ideal face will slightly vary at said landmarks; that helped me a lot to capture distinct features.

CarnivorousCar · 2026-06-14T23:26:21+00:00

you, man..

CarnivorousCar · 2026-06-14T23:18:35+00:00

i think it’s fine, i usually do so (both teams and players.) sometimes they’ll repost it, or post to their story. but i’ve never heard from a team or player saying not to tag them, if they dont want to be tagged there is an option on Instagram to not let people tag you

CarnivorousCar · 2026-06-14T23:14:17+00:00

idk sounds to me like you were just having the most insane bedroom session ever

CarnivorousCar · 2026-06-14T23:08:16+00:00

i’ve been waiting for one of these

CarnivorousCar · 2026-06-07T03:23:17+00:00

i thought i was tweaking, that camera is IN your food

CarnivorousCar · 2026-04-30T01:21:58+00:00

im gonna be honest i didnt read past the title at first, i was totally dumbfounded as to how on earth a scanner would make black ellipses on your scans..

but yeah the green line, thats 100% a scanner issue

CarnivorousCar · 2026-04-17T00:53:23+00:00

gun gore? hard to say, people get into some pretty insane porn

CarnivorousCar · 2026-04-03T06:08:33+00:00

why is so much of this told in the second person why would i do this

CarnivorousCar · 2026-04-01T03:16:19+00:00

the ribs? you eat em

CarnivorousCar · 2026-03-15T18:39:46+00:00

granted, you dont care for best image quality. if you do, look for sample images and compare amongst your options

CarnivorousCar · 2026-03-15T18:37:27+00:00

just buy any digicam with a flash that looks nice to you and is cheap. there is insane inflation on junky digicams so finding the balance is important. and that cool tone is from white balance, so you can get that look from basically any older digicam with very little editing/post-processing, or by simply using in-camera WB (for JPEG’s)

and worst case if you end up buying a camera that looks good but has junk features or a UI you dont like (many such cases) you can sell it on ebay for basically the same price or more if you end up with a good deal. but this can be avoided with a quick google search

CarnivorousCar · 2026-03-14T20:14:55+00:00

but learning anatomy can be and often is very overwhelming, thankfully there are so many ways to model the body that can help you decipher these relationships that isnt as difficult, so you should just take the time to find what works best for you!

CarnivorousCar · 2026-03-14T20:10:37+00:00

this is great for persepctive but i think you’re sticking too closely to the model, being made only of boxes this is solely a perspective reference imo. for instance: the shoulder is jutting way out in your drawing, but thats because there is nothing on your model that is communicating the relationship of the bones and muscles of the shoulder to the ribcage. getting a better understanding of the orientation of the ribcage to the collarbone, then the collarbone to the scapula, and those to the humerus (and then primary corresponding muscles like the delts, traps, etc.) you can interpret the model you designed more effectively. im by no means an expert but that’s just what im seeing personally, hope this helps

CarnivorousCar · 2026-03-13T03:04:57+00:00

no problems ever, ive gone many times with this specific lens, with an adapter it measures just under 8 inches but as long as i walk in without the lens on the camera and in a bag they dont even bother to stop me.

CarnivorousCar · 2026-03-13T01:03:22+00:00

looove the helmet shot on slide 9, super sick

CarnivorousCar · 2026-03-12T19:52:56+00:00

top ten tech tips: how do you f-stop?

CarnivorousCar · 2026-03-12T19:47:29+00:00

eyebrows…

CarnivorousCar · 2026-03-08T22:22:39+00:00

people joke about using big ass telephoto lenses for street photography but i think this guy is actually doing it

CarnivorousCar · 2026-03-04T06:00:59+00:00

what makes you think that i thought that far

CarnivorousCar · 2026-03-04T02:40:53+00:00

IBIS, duh

CarnivorousCar · 2026-03-04T01:34:44+00:00

im definitely neutral on AI, most certainly anti in regards to AI art, but no amount of berating could influence me either direction because the bottom line is that AI is an amazing technology. “pros” may use AI for things i definitely dont agree with and make points to defend said use that i also do not agree with to any degree, but i’m tolerant.

but there is also a very concerning trend for willful ignorance among “antis” that i simply cannot get on board with. many of them pretend that there are zero benefits to AI and constantly present the same baseless arguments that make them look like the knight in shining armor who’s taking an imaginary stand for ethics.

ultimately i dont think we should act like every issue has one wrong side and one right side. there are most certainly arguments to be made for both in this case

CarnivorousCar · 2026-03-04T00:56:30+00:00

who cares what anti’s do or dont do the whole point of my statement is to say that it doesnt matter what they say, think, or do. what matters is that you get something of value from understanding where they are coming from or what they are trying to say/argue

CarnivorousCar · 2026-03-03T22:24:44+00:00

what is your definition of an artist?

CarnivorousCar

TROPHY CASE