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Sevage

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2 years 10 months ago


picture of a friend... I kinda suck at drawing from pictures, pointers would be nice

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brewin

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2 years 10 months ago

Seems like you know what you're doing
All i see wrong is the lower teeth might be out of perspective and the neck muscles seem a little weird
adding darker values may help too.


My personal opinion is that just copying photos doesn't really help much, using reference/ drawing from life is essential though.

You get a 10 from me

Sevage

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2 years 10 months ago

Thanks

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I think drawing from reference makes you spot details - and the repetition of doing this makes you get more used to digital medium, I know the same counts for traditional 2D, when you repeat, rinse and re-repeat, some good effect is bound to rub off on you.

Personally, this kind of replication, for me, is good to get to grips with colours ( and no, not colour picking, I mean mixing your own to understand it and trying to get as close to the original as possible or adding complimentary colours that make the image even more special. )

This looks cool, it's not a 1:1 copy of the original I bet, and this means you've added a twist to it making it your own,
I would say that colour wise, it looks a bit dull, almost as if there is too much white present, try working on a darker base page - even black, this will 'Carvaggio' your work lickity split. =)

Technically, you could bring out some detail in the eye's, to make the viewer look there first and keep their attention there, so my 2 cents is darker values and a focal point for the viewers eye's to rest on, maybe the eye's, or you could do the mouth it you want a surreal macabre feel to it...saliva ROCKS! =D

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haha "'Carvagio' your work"

Helix

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Yeah, seeing as Carvagio's work is mostly with a dark background ( because of his painting method )

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yeah chiaroscuro
I major in art you know

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=) No I didn't know.

I never had art and I'm not being taught
anything major about art, so I try and learn where I can.

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Now you do =)

It's great you're willing to learn, cause I know that I wouldn't if it wasn't required of me.

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