Quick Sharpie sketch of Elizabeth Debicki as Kat from Tenet. Yes, rendering with a Sharpie is kinda crummy, but for this exercise I was specifically focusing on page angle (using a protractor and a small folded bag to raise the sketchpad to 90 degrees to my eye while sitting on my knee), head tilt, eye tilt, overall landscape proportions, and making sure the eye closest to the edge of the face was close to the edge of the face. Let’s see how I did:
Wow, I forgot how beaten down Kat looked in this scene. 🙁 Overall, I don’t think the sketch came out too bad. I missed a roughly two degree tilt to the scene, and the eyes are still not perfect (more clear if you match the cheek rather than matching eye-nose-mouth) but the hypothesis that the root cause of my stretched / squashed heads was drawing on a poorly angled page seems preliminarily confirmed:
Perhaps I’ll try a few more of these, focusing on the angle of the page, and if I can keep getting the proportions right, maybe we can go back to trying to do actual renders.
Drawing every day.
-the Centaur
