hi BIG FAN ‼️‼️‼️🔥🔥 can i know how you manage to do head shapes and stuff like???? how are you sectioning stuff up and what not
hello thank you :) obviously there are a lot of different ways people do sketch construction but this is the quick n dirty of how i go about it
tbh i still run into a lot of dissatisfaction w drawing heads at certain angles, especially the slightly up angled view im obsessed w for some reason, but this is basically what i do for every head. disclaimer this is all influenced by my visual lean towards realism + not a proclamation of what art is Good and True .obvs.
The bare essentials are
1) making sure there's enough bulk of the skull for the neck (thicker than you think) to connect comfortably
2) making sure the eye socket line falls ~halfway down the length of the head
3) establish the noseline/nose block
4) making sure the ear/jaw/hairline placement affirms the angle i'm going for
Doing sketchovers of photos can help give you an understanding of where features generally fall in relation to each other, as well as what you tend to forget/overemphasize/deemphasize when freehanding.
It should also obviously be noted there's a far bigger variation in facial proportions than can be described by the breakdown of "eyeline/noseline/chin" divisions, and imo the best way to figure out the extent of that variation is by doing photo studies!
finally, i draw a lot of floating heads all the time, and am pretty comfortable extrapolating from this relatively loose construction method lol BUT if an angle is particularly awkward or I need a really clear grasp of form for lighting, i will absolutely set up more construction lines to help me. so like no wrong way to do it, construction sketches should be as in depth as is helpful to you, however much or little.
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but what if reverse robins but lots of things stay the same
we start with damian wayne, bruce's age is *mumblemumble* to make this work. batman is working on his own and then talia just randomly drops him off one day and he insists on helping out as it is his birthright, becoming batman's partner robin.
things get tense as eventually he gets fatally injured and subsequently gets resurrected (we'll go with right away, by his mother), this causing a chasm between the him and bruce and causing bruce to lash out for damian's safety and fire him, causing damian to leave to his teen titans and find his own name, away from his father
bruce is sulky and sad that he pushes away everyone he loves when he finds a girl who is trying to DIY vigilante-ism going after her father, cluemaster. bruce, having learned nothing from his past mistakes, takes her under his wing as the new robin, in part to upset damian. this upsets damian greatly at first, although he eventually comes around.
bruce being bruce, however is controlling and paranoid after damian's death and resurrection and is quite dismissive of the girl. stephanie, being quite upset at this treatment goes out on her own to prove herself, getting ensared by black mask in the process. he tortures and seemingly kills her.
(she doesn't get sexually tortured, though, ew dc)
bruce goes on a rampage in his guilt, hitting harder and showing no concern for himself
tim drake, local batman and robin fanboy decides someone needs to intervene. he goes and finds damian wayne in an attempt to get damian to go back as robin, because batman needs someone there to hold him back.
damian says absolutely not, my father and i can't work together like we used to, things are different now. he doesn't like tim, necessarily, but eventually develops a grudging respect for him at his tenacity and faith that robin needs to be a thing. he eventually okays the transfer of robin to tim and helps to convince bruce to take on a robin again
tim gets lots and lots and lots of training to make sure he's as safe as possible. steph is a precautionary tale.
something something prodigal with damian and tim half baked idea utterly hilarious to me
tim and damian don't have the dick and tim dynamic but they settle into fondness and snarky comments about the other but still would 100% die for the other in a heartbeat
and maybe they bond over issues with their dads y'know?
anyways jack finds out and tim has to quit as robin!! oh noes
bruce deals with this in the most bruce way possible: by finding a kid jacking tires off his car and making him robin
unfortunately, this kid gets killed by the joker. tim returns, angry at bruce over everything that just happened, but the anger won't last long because immediately after this tim's dad dies and kind of overshadows everything else.
meanwhile, stephanie, having faked her death, comes back and is pissed because not only was she replaced right away, bruce seems to be putting much more care and thought into training tim
after she finds out she goes to the league of assassins to learn how to best get revenge on batman. she comes back and takes over black mask's gang and becomes the new black mask and yadda yadda yadda
anyways one year later, tim gets adopted (damian will never admit it, but this pleases him), and then bruce goes to the circus and meets dick grayson, only for his parents to fall and die and bruce immediately takes him in
which causes tim some insecurity because his place in the family seems so new
but unlike the super tense initial tim and damian relationship, every dick and tim brotherhood needs a healthy dose of hero worship
see, dick remembers very clearly the time that his parents won tickets to a baseball game from a charity event hosted by drake industries and it was a *big* deal. he got to meet tim there and ~take a picture together~ and he's just in awe of meeting him again
at some point jason gets resurrected. does he join steph?? maybe he settles into a role under oracle, the two brought together by their respective experiences with the joker
anyways bruce dies in final crisis. damian must take up the cowl. he chooses dick to be his robin because really, drake, i respect your abilities so much you are ready to spread your wings and fly now
tim then effs off to go find bruce in the time stream.
anyways he finds bruce, comes back, and settles into his role as red robin, mentor and big brother figure to robin. they complain about damian together, go train surfing, and push each other off buildings.
something something the end
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