100 Heads Challenge day 1!

[thagandizzle]

I am going to try and do the 100 Heads Challenge, which requires a person to draw 100 unique heads in 10 days. It's an exercise to try and help you avoid Same Face Syndrome. SFS is definitely a problem that I can have--especially since I like to draw really teensy little drawings a lot of the time and it's hard to diversify facial features. That's what I keep telling myself, anyhow.

So here's some faces! Click to enlarge.

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[oldtoadwoman]

Oh, those are so good! (Oh, man, I'm so bad at sticking to my goals, I don't think I could do 100 heads in 100 days.)

[aim_of_destiny]

ooh, i like this idea! (not that i have the stamina/commitment to participate, but, y'know...)

those are some nicely varied heads, too! what are you using for reference?

[darkmarcy]

That's a neat challenge, I did not know of it! Good luck, looking good this far!

[tjoel2]

Great challenge! And yours all look so different and unique!

[thagandizzle]

I went on Pinterest and looked up "face" for most of them, lol! One of them is a friend of mine who offered her face up for tribute and I specifically looked up "Asian woman" on Pinterest to find the reference for the woman in the bottom right corner. I wanted to keep my search as general as possible to cast as wide a net as I could. It still took a lot of scrolling to not JUST find models!

Re: faces

[thagandizzle]

I'm on day 2 and I'm already faceplanting into my sketchbook so, you know, we'll see if I can do it in the ten days!

[thagandizzle]

Thanks for the wish for luck--I'll need it to push through this challenge!

[thagandizzle]

Thank-you! I'm really hoping that I can keep that going as the challenge goes on. It's surprisingly hard to find references that aren't models or just... stupid. My wife recommended that I look up mugshots for one of the days and I gotta say... Tempted!

[tjoel2]

That's actually a great idea! I would love to see your drawings of mugshots. :P

Re: faces

[oldtoadwoman]

Good luck!

[aim_of_destiny]

may i recommend a site that'll save you some scrolling? there's http://humanae.tumblr.com which has a very diverse set of human faces available. (and a 'random post' button, which may help diversify your models even further!) you do have to screenshot them for a 'permanent' record as the site doesn't allow direct downloads, but it's definitely workable.

[thagandizzle]

Oooo! Excellent! Thanks so much! This tumblr is definitely useful for some good forward-facing shots. I do love the range of ages and races they have!