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1:45 PM, Thursday January 12th 2023
edited at 1:49 PM, Jan 12th 2023

You already have a good answer from LUCYMORAES38, I will just contribute with a tip on the specific subject you tried to draw.

If you had no problem with the dragon head (usaly a sphere with a alongated box in front to depict the jaw) and no problem with the helmet (usaly a cylinder with half sphere on top), maybe the problem is the relationship between those forms.

Maybe you trying to put a too small helmet on a bigger head (or small head to a big helmet).

Maybe the helmet are trespassing some feature of the dragon and you are not seeing it - just feeling the problem.

Are the head and helmet vectors aligned?

My advice is to try simpler forms to the head and the helmet, I think you tried one step ahead you should.

Just an insight, maybe it's not the problem at all.

Hope I helped some way.

edited at 1:49 PM, Jan 12th 2023
2:28 PM, Thursday January 12th 2023
edited at 2:37 PM, Jan 12th 2023

Thanks for your thoughts!! Actually i was struggling with the helmet itself. Here it's reference and how I did it

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GYl2OKrQWidzzeRm4je_X_FCe8Addu5S

It would of of great help if you tell me how you would go about deconstructing it.

My crazy mind pick the most difficult Helmet present on Pinterest rather than other where front is plane.

Can you also please expand your thought where you said that "I have move one step ahead"

Thanks ones again

edited at 2:37 PM, Jan 12th 2023
3:47 PM, Thursday January 12th 2023
edited at 3:47 PM, Jan 12th 2023

When i said maybe you where one step ahead I mean maybe you are using too much forms or too complex forms.

Maybe you are using more complex forms when you could just use a simple sphere/cone/cylinder/box and just after that try to shape that sphere/cone/cylinder/box into a more complex form closer to the reference.

Exemplifying: A head can be simplified into a half-sphere (cranium) on top a box (jaw). After this first step you star to carve both the sphere and the box to move closer to the reference.

edited at 3:47 PM, Jan 12th 2023
3:01 PM, Thursday January 12th 2023

It's indeed a hard helmet to reduce to basic forms.

I did this one:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NvqlWWZZ-hNpy-weY3PBD2YiyLbV1NA4/view?usp=sharing

The porportions are a bit off, but I think it's ok.

I forgot to add the crest of the helmet on the study, but it's a pyramid-like as llike the facemask.

5:47 AM, Friday January 13th 2023

Thanks mate!! If you don't mind , can you please again send the image , I can't fully figure it out. Here is the one I did , again after countless times

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GYl2OKrQWidzzeRm4je_X_FCe8Addu5S

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