Did my second attempt at a head turnaround and did much better this time since I didn't get frustrated and give up after the third one. I will say though I'm slightly lying here, the black lines which I drew I did in fact do on the 30th, however the red lines in which I trace the original reference photo I actually didn't do until yesterday (February 3rd). Simple reason is that my brain started shutting down doing the black line drawings, you can tell the last two I started just trying to get it done, I was probably like understimulated, and then Finn asked if I wanted to watch a movie and I was like sure and we watched Longlegs and then I went to bed. Then I had shit going on for a couple days but I managed to get the tracings done at all at least.

I've been watching Michael Hampton's videos on head construction and they have some good info, despite being the quietest videos on earth, so you can probably see the way in which some of that is influencing the way I did these studies particularly with the eyes. When it came to the red lines I put quite a bit of time into at least the first one (the facing forward one) just to sort of assure myself that I am understanding the 3D forms here and I'm not just basically doing contour lines/copying the Asaro head. I don't know if that completely worked or if it's even true to a more taught eye but yknow is what it is.

Honestly I think I did pretty well with these, there's still a couple problems, some I've just kept struggling with like the guy in the reference having quite a lot of hair so same old. At one point Ian came into the VC and started pointing out the way I was doing the back of the head so some adjustments happened in the moment. I think when I do more indepth studies I definitely need to just do some studies of the skull itself I don't think the Asaro head is the best frame of reference for the back of the head. If I ever do another of these head turnarounds I'll probably throw down some guidelines to try to keep my drawings the same size though I'm kinda surprised how many of these I actually didn't have to resize the red lines to fit the scale of my drawing. Have a bit more head shape studies before I move onto getting more familiar with drawing expressions and stuff. I did do some play drawing after but I'm not sharing cause it was honestly just me tracing over a picture of Ian to draw it as it's fursona so I don't consider that worth sharing, though doing those kinds of things isn't bad gave me more of an idea of other things I need to practice and study and I did experiment with some things.