Hi Rob, thank you so much for your detailed reply and comments ! I will definitely focus on ellipses in funnels during warmup to practise keeping them aligned, as well as maintaining the focus on confident strokes in the 250 box challenge. Thanks again. Corey
I second checking out Fun with a Pencil, which is what I dipped into when wanting to learn how to draw the head in 2012. From memory, you draw a bunch of blobs and put features on them to start off with before moving on to the sphere. I couldn't draw circles very well at the time, so I simple traced a coin 20 times and then experimented with different ellipse configurations.
Another thing to try is to get a styrofoam ball (craft stores should have them), draw the verticle and horizonal lines in marker, and poke toothpicks through for the poles. You can then use this as an observational model to practise changing the angles, recording the different configurations of the ellipses, and move on to making up your own configurations.
This is another one of those things that aren't sold through Amazon, so I don't get a commission on it - but it's just too good to leave out. PureRef is a fantastic piece of software that is both Windows and Mac compatible. It's used for collecting reference and compiling them into a moodboard. You can move them around freely, have them automatically arranged, zoom in/out and even scale/flip/rotate images as you please. If needed, you can also add little text notes.
When starting on a project, I'll often open it up and start dragging reference images off the internet onto the board. When I'm done, I'll save out a '.pur' file, which embeds all the images. They can get pretty big, but are way more convenient than hauling around folders full of separate images.
Did I mention you can get it for free? The developer allows you to pay whatever amount you want for it. They recommend $5, but they'll allow you to take it for nothing. Really though, with software this versatile and polished, you really should throw them a few bucks if you pick it up. It's more than worth it.
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