Lesson #2 Stretch and squash on heads

Drawing stretched and squashed circles first will help to understand how the head should look like. Also I catched myself on making faces while drawing. Probably, it helps me to feel the emotion better, I was trying to respond to the picture. If the dog is angry, I was making angry faces...
Another note on today's lesson: do not afraid to stretch or squash more then you want to. My mistake was that I didn't see difference on my pictures. Stretch and squash were almost the same. One of the cool design principles is to make different objects REALLY different. Smth extra small with extra big together. It brings attention and contrast.
And one more thing: I found helpful to draw the arrows to show the movement of the head. First, I was drawing construction, then arrows, after that I was checking and redrawing if needed my construction and then I draw the elements of the head.

Lesson #1 Construction - The Head (end)

Last page of the lesson 1. Searched for people who are doing same lessons. Seems like they all stoped working on it after the first one. Will see how it goes with me. Also I looked through other lessons on the site and don't like the idea of copying Preston Blair's picture with exactly every detail. I think the most important thing to learn here: principles and a lot of practice. Even if I'm drawing circles and lines - I must draw it every day. Just don't let your pencil be dull (although I use mechanical pencil hehe ).

Lesson #1 Construction - The Head (cont)

I feel very lazy today, but did the lesson anyway. It is probably not as accurate as I wanted it to be. Also, I ordered animation book by Preston Blair today.

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive: Meta: The $100,000 Animation Drawing Course- Lesson 1

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive: Meta: The $100,000 Animation Drawing Course- Lesson 1

Lesson #1 Construction - The Head

Не знаю можно ли здесь переключать язык на английский. Видимо нельзя. Когда нибудь заведу платный блог. Пока буду на английском пытаться царапать. Простите за грамматику :)

Today I've got through Lesson One. There is a link there where you can see every page of the first book by Preston Blair.
Although, I'm not finished with the lessons, here are sketches that I've done today:

Провела несколько часов в интернете сегодня в поисках хороших уроков по анимации. Наткнулась на Meta: The $100000 Animation Drawing Course . Это довольно старый пост в котором John Kricfalusi публиковал уроки по анимации на основе книги "Animation" by Preston Blair. Я уже давно задавалась вопросом: как же это получается у художников рисовать анимацию? Я решила что эти десять уроков стоит прочесть и точно стоит купить книгу. Я опубликую свои рисунки по этим урокам в скором времени.