100 Heads Challenge - Alternative references
Alternative references for portrait drawing practice. These head references are of various angles, ages, and ethnicities. Every reference also includes a grayscale version for simplifying shadows and shading.
References
10 heads per group (10 for each day of the challenge):
- Little boys
- Little girls
- Teenage boys
- Teenage girls
- Young men
- Young women
- Middle age men
- Middle age women
- Old men
- Old women
What is the 100 heads challenge?
It's a drawing challenge created by Ahmed Aldoori (YouTube video) that requires drawing 100 heads in 10 days to improve one's portrait-drawing skills. I personally don't care too much about the time limit. I just draw when I have time.
Why alternative references?
Although Ahmed did share his Pinterest board, which is amazing, I want my references for this to be free to use so that there is no risk of a photographer suing me for attempting to replicate their work when they find my drawing posted somewhere. Also, I'm an absolute beginner at studying faces for drawing, and having grayscale images along with the original might help me learn how to distinguish values for shading purposes.