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Post by musesnightmare on Mar 17, 2009 22:19:52 GMT -5
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tyzue
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Post by tyzue on Mar 18, 2009 10:12:38 GMT -5
On a simple level, they're fairly good as far as idea goes. I can tell you have an idea of how you want the picture to be. As you have focus, which is good. (A lot of times people have too many ideas in one picture and it gets too cluttery). Some things you can work on.. 1. Making your lines more.. secure? Lines are very important and it helps make the picture look much more real. When a line is off, even just by a little bit; it stands out. A good way to help fix this is to draw multiple lines (sketches). If you take a pencil and draw a line, then draw another line over/around the first one, you'll start to see where the line "should be" to make it look more real. Make sure flat things are flat and round things are round. (The bottoms and the arcs of the shoes, etc). Study a thing or two on line variety. Learn what places should have thin lines or bold ones. 2. Study light and shade. Don't worry about color until you understand this. Light and shade is another contributer to making a picture look real. Even, if it's a cartoon and you know it's not "real", it still is important that you capture the reality of form. The shape of a leg won't look like a leg if the shading is off. The way light touches an item is how people determine what it is. For example; draw a square. Just a flat.. square. Now, say this is someone's roof and you are looking at it from a bird's eye view. Without shade, you can't tell what shape it is because it's just a square. But if you shade it properly, you can determine its shape. This square shaped roof could be round or it could be triangular (or another whacky shape). I'd say the best one is the first. Because there is more believable shape. The face; the cheek, nose and lips look the way they should on a simple level. The lines in the hair make it look like there is volume. it's believable. The flowers could use some work, but it's alright. The pink/red one in the center is the best one. The key to drawing flowers is making sure no petal looks identical to the other. so, this red one has variety in the shape, which makes it look more real. I also like the last one. I like that the laces wrap around her foot. The cool thing about drawing fishnet tights is that you can create shape with it. If you look at a photo of a woman wearing fishnet tights, you can see every shape of every muscle in her leg. I like that you took that into consideration and didn't just make flat cross hatches. Good job. you've got room to improve but you're well on your way. Keep it up
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Post by musesnightmare on Mar 18, 2009 13:33:30 GMT -5
Thank you so much for the critique! I will definitly take all of that into mind on future works. This is a newer one, just wondering about any critique on it at well. It is more in the vein of what I draw often, portraits.
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tyzue
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Post by tyzue on Mar 18, 2009 14:24:15 GMT -5
Oh this new one is definitely a different feel. Since it lacks lines, it's a straight pencil portrait. It's great. You captured the proportion and the angle very well. You shaded the hair well too. It has the feel of real hair. (A lot of people have problems with hair, myself included lol). I would say this looks like an inprogress shot though. You can do much more to it. Add more depth in the picture. When I first started, I had a lot of portraits like this because I was afraid that if I do more, then I'd "ruin" the picture. But I found that it isn't the case... and if you do, so what? you learn and you do better in the next few portraits you do. There's a lot of very light areas in the face here. The best portraits are the ones with lots of contrast. It's hard to do portraits of people when the lighting is evenly spread on the face as opposed to having one side lit, which shows a ton of shadow. But for being a light picture, it looks good Did you use a reference photo for this? Or just a mirror?
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Post by musesnightmare on Mar 18, 2009 16:20:22 GMT -5
Thank you! I have been trying to work on darkening my pictures. I have issues when it comes to making black shadows actually black. But compared to some of my earlier stuff the shading is far darker. (also, and not as an excuse, because the actual picture is still light, the scanner I used seems to brigthen up pictures more than I would like. Pain in the butt it is) I did use a reference photo (this is a friend of mine, not me, just so you know!) This was the photo I used 1.bp.blogspot.com/_4sxaGJSiSwc/SUB9ig_cVnI/AAAAAAAAA6M/ooM6NF_ECbg/s1600/DSC_0576.JPG Posted as a link because it's quite big.
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tyzue
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Post by tyzue on Mar 18, 2009 16:37:23 GMT -5
Just takes practice. You've already got the HARD part down, which is making the picture look belieivable... proportion wise and all that jazz And you made it look very much like her, which is another toughie.
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Post by tercado on Mar 18, 2009 19:45:47 GMT -5
wow! Nice portrait!
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