I’ve been watching Stephen Silver’s Character Design lectures with my Schoolism subscription, and there is always a new personal revelation every lecture. There’s just something refreshing about learning something completely outside your scope of ability and slowly seeing what the teacher sees.

In this exercise, you’re supposed to draw as realistically as possible a person’s head and then stretch and mold that person’s head into different shapes. The goal isn’t to necessarily be true to the person’s likeness, but to experiment and see what new characters and ideas you get out of playing with that person’s face.

Naturally, I chose a Game of Thrones character since the season just started. 🙂