Hard Things Are Good Things (Even When I Lose the Likeness) | Portrait 54/1000

Bucket hat, looking up and off. The head's tipped at an angle I'm not used to, and I catch myself drawing the eyes straight across instead of on the angle. Also: teaching my kids that hard things are good things, and how it takes some maturity to hear your work isn't there yet. 0:00 A warm, look-off-into-the-distance pose 1:08 Hard things are good things 4:20 Draw what I see, not straight across 7:15 Everything in art is triangles 11:09 Building the face before the nose 14:46 Taking criticism (and the remedy) 19:22 Lost likeness, and a fix 📷 Reference: a photo of a young man in a bucket hat (no link given) 🛠 Tools I use: AngleRef (references by head angle): https://angleref.com PureRef (reference board app): https://www.pureref.com/download.php ▶ All portraits, full demos and Shorts:    / @russmayomaker   — 🎯 I'm drawing 1,000 portraits to train my eye for likeness. #portraitdrawing #drawingpractice #1000portraits #portraitstudy