It's a shame that the preview image cuts a lot of these in half. When I clicked for full view, I found alot of great stuff that doesn't show up in the main entry. Such as the fishman with a ray gun! I really like that one. What are you using to get colors in your sketchbook?
I think your level of detail, even in simple sketches, is great. You lavish a lot of attention on little elements of costume and props. All the guns look extra cool.
The lady in the military hat is a bit mannish. I know this is a persistent complaint, and I'm sure you're sick of it. But praise and adoration of your good aspects only gets you so far, so I guess I'll offer up a steaming pile of critique. I think one of the main factors in this is the overall angularity of the features. You draw women with unique facial proportions, and I actually think that is a uniquely interesting factor. Most people see the big nose and identify that as the non-feminine element. I think it's those harsh edges and angles, apparent in most major elements, from the nose to the jaw to the shading on her cheek, everything has a pretty distinct angle to it, or is comprised of nearly straight lines. Female features work better when nothing comes to a point, and every feature is defined by a smooth curve. Use as few line segments to make up the features as possible. go for just a few long, graceful curves.
Thanks for the critiques, they help a lot. For the colors, I'm using these Faber Castell PITT artist pen things I got for Christmas. They're six-packs of the "B" sized brush pens, one's "landscape" with some assorted colors, and the other is "terra" which goes from bright saturated yellow and orange to duller dark browns. Pretty fun to play with, and they don't bleed through the pages of my sketchbook (Cachet Earthbound).
I think you're very right about the soldier woman. I managed to dig up my original reference image, and although she DOES have a lot of structure to her face, I way over-emphasized everything:
Mainly the size of the nose and mouth, and the definition around the lips and chin. Not to mention all kinds of wackiness going on with her overall facial arrangement, like ears, tall face (artist draws portrait which resembles themself, news at 11!), big jaw, etc. My excuse is that I can't undo drawings, and it was probably like 3:00 AM.
I guess one day I'll have to take a break from work and just draw a ton of pretty ladies. Art is tough, you know, but I can endure.
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It's a shame that the preview image cuts a lot of these in half. When I clicked for full view, I found alot of great stuff that doesn't show up in the main entry. Such as the fishman with a ray gun! I really like that one. What are you using to get colors in your sketchbook?
I think your level of detail, even in simple sketches, is great. You lavish a lot of attention on little elements of costume and props. All the guns look extra cool.
The lady in the military hat is a bit mannish. I know this is a persistent complaint, and I'm sure you're sick of it. But praise and adoration of your good aspects only gets you so far, so I guess I'll offer up a steaming pile of critique.
I think one of the main factors in this is the overall angularity of the features. You draw women with unique facial proportions, and I actually think that is a uniquely interesting factor. Most people see the big nose and identify that as the non-feminine element. I think it's those harsh edges and angles, apparent in most major elements, from the nose to the jaw to the shading on her cheek, everything has a pretty distinct angle to it, or is comprised of nearly straight lines. Female features work better when nothing comes to a point, and every feature is defined by a smooth curve. Use as few line segments to make up the features as possible. go for just a few long, graceful curves.
Thanks for the critiques, they help a lot. For the colors, I'm using these Faber Castell PITT artist pen things I got for Christmas. They're six-packs of the "B" sized brush pens, one's "landscape" with some assorted colors, and the other is "terra" which goes from bright saturated yellow and orange to duller dark browns. Pretty fun to play with, and they don't bleed through the pages of my sketchbook (Cachet Earthbound).
I think you're very right about the soldier woman. I managed to dig up my original reference image, and although she DOES have a lot of structure to her face, I way over-emphasized everything:
http://churchofcordite.org/brotherdaniel/Misc/s100yr8.jpg
Mainly the size of the nose and mouth, and the definition around the lips and chin. Not to mention all kinds of wackiness going on with her overall facial arrangement, like ears, tall face (artist draws portrait which resembles themself, news at 11!), big jaw, etc. My excuse is that I can't undo drawings, and it was probably like 3:00 AM.
I guess one day I'll have to take a break from work and just draw a ton of pretty ladies. Art is tough, you know, but I can endure.
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