[Matthew Haverly]

“Shape Design” is my favorite section so far.

Section 7 demonstration – The “Brown school” of portraiture you mentioned.  The “work within the shadows”.  I like  the generous amount of shadow in many of these drawings, and how areas of them are flamboyant (like the hair), sections more box theory, and sections with more detail and sections with less.  This is all characterized as “Brown school”?  I want to find out more about this.   I can tell I’m gonna have to watch this course many times – LOVE it.

[Matthew Haverly]

[Drawing of Mongo]

LOVE the “vertical” quality you put into the lines.  GREAT idea.  So so many great ideas in one course!  🙂

[Matthew Haverly]

LOVE this entire course.  🙂

I have picked up a very cool pleasing trait in your drawings of women, and I see it in particular in the second draft of this sketch.  Very often, you go generous with the volume of the hair on the back/top of the head.  And it has a strong almost angular quality to it back there.  Every time you do it it really looks pleasing.  Love your drawings – and the way you do hair is just fascinating and over the top.  It makes me wanna just stop the video right there and pick up my pencil and draw draw draw.  It is also interesting how even if the female has one or more features that veer towards and almost “masculine” trait, you add that volume to the hair on the back and BAM – it is just over the top.  Maybe it would be fun to take up hair styling on the side.  HAA HAA!  Great drawings and instruction.  Super high class, high quality.  I can see a difference in my drawings and how I am getting more of an idea of the drawing in shorter amount of time right at the beginning, which is always the most terrifying part for me, and how drawing from extreme angles seems to be coming a bit less tense.  I’m also just shocked what you can draw with a cheap ball point pen.  I see your ball point pen drawings and wish everything i drew could be just that.  🙂

[Matthew Haverly]

Hello – I am very new artist, really enjoying your course(s).

I was wondering about anatomy in general.  It comes up a lot.  If I am mainly drawing from observation, I am struggling a little to connect with having a deep understanding of anatomy is helping.  I know that there is tons more to go into with it.  Is it so I can go beyond observational drawing?  I feel like I am learning about it a bit.  But beyond a certain point I am having a hard time understanding the return on it.  Not complaining – just trying to understand better.  Just thought I would try to spin up some discussion and maybe find some helpful feedback.  Thank you!

[Matthew Haverly]

Is there a place where the drawings he does are saved also?

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