I use some reference, sometimes it's handy to have a lot of photographs of friends and relatives lying around, I love old people., their wrinkles give the image life,
I used reference form a photo on my wall, amongst many, to get the heads shape right, but that's all concerning it.
I dunno, I like faces, I used to suck at them and couldn't even draw a line face, but now, I rely heavily on memory for most of the images I draw, my photorealism studies have also made a heavy contribution to my work, it makes me rely on saturation of heavy colours, in this case, even though it's monotone, highlighting the image and subtly making a larger amount lighter and a small amount darkly shaded as a whole makes an image more real.
I have a ton of tutorials concerning this stuff, so, If your interested, drop me a hollar, and I'll throw it at you. Fo'Realz
PS: this is far, and I mean another hour of solid work away from looking ideal, the face is still too flat, there are too few differentiations in the black ( yes, there's not JUST black, there's dark green, dark blue, etc.) but it's so close to black, no one sees it, but it makes s huge difference. Also, the skin has almost no real defining texture or imperfections, the polo-neck top is flat, there's no pattern or weave, the background is static. etc....need I go on...
I'll see if there's a really good topic coming up and then dedicate one good image for that topic!
nice, very nice.
I was thinking Elvis on Velvet, minus Elvis and the Velvet...
You are vunderfully vell grrrounded in the basics.
I'd like to see you're abstract work.
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I don't know this dude, I don't even know if he's at all applicable to king, but yeah, I figured why not post it.
PS: Blending skin tone sux ballz in OC.
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