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Question from Tedd

How do you know if you you are spending to much time with your sketch or drawing? Is it important to be quick?

Question from Ron

Can I take the Drawing Academy course using digital drawing with an iPad and iPencil?

Questions from Gabriel, Drawing Academy student

Hi Vladimir!

This time I have some questions about the depiction of a human head:

1. On “Drawing Lesson 5, Part 1 – How to Draw a Head”, you explain: “the full width of the head is two-thirds of the total height”. I have had some trouble in drawing this on the front view. First, I draw a vertical axis and then a horizontal axis crossing it in the middle, but once I draw the horizontal axis and define its boundaries, its half-width doesn’t fit 3 times the total height. I end up losing a lot of time trying to fix this. How should I draw these proportions more accurately?

2. Why does the skull look so wide in profile? Is it possible to draw it narrower when needed? (Sometimes I find people in reality don’t have such a “wide” skull in profile)

3. When drawing in profile or in front view, where is the line of the mouth located exactly?

4. Is it a good idea to copy step by step the whole drawings depicted in the video lessons? (So far, that’s what I’ve been doing). If not, which would be the best way to take advantage of the video lessons?

Question from John Connolly

“It would take me more than 3 months to get through the Drawing Academy course; what happens after the 3 months?” …

Question from Edward Pan

When shading, I find I sometimes have the tendency to rotate the drawing board back-and-forth so that a certain area becomes more reachable for my hand. Is this a correct approach? …

Question from Roxane

At almost every life drawing session, we start with several one-minute, two-minute and five-minute gesture drawings. I find these short sessions very frustrating. Please correct me on this and give me some goal for each short session…

Question from Joey

I have been trying to find an effective way to draw the head, from any angle, in my imagination. One drawing tutor uses a technique in which he adds circles to the side planes of the head and with that, he measures the ears and adds the chin. Can you tell me how the Old Masters addressed this task? …

Question from Na’Taya Moore

How do I stay motivated when my drawing doesn’t look the way I pictured it in my head? …

Question from Peter Vernon

What might be the best daily drawing exercises for learning figure drawing? …

Question from Tyler

I have a fear of my art not coming out very good and it sometimes keeps me from trying to draw. Do you have any suggestions on how I could work past this? …