Peter's Sketchbook

[Peter]

yea those are better already :) watch the proportions, the eyes feel cartooney, so just remember to draw them smaller and remember eyes are nowhere near as big as we think they are, we just think theyre huge because we look at them so much. Eyes are quite tiny, from far away its hard to even see people's eyes, the most visible part is the shadow the socket and brow cast, so always remember that. If you did those in wolffs carbon that's great, you have much better control with those so definitely keep them in your arsenal :)

Still seem to struggle with eyes from time to time, like sometimes I feel like I got the size correct and other times I draw them twice as big as they should! And yh all of those drawings where done using wolffs carbon. I know that different tools don't make you beter but for some reason I just seem to have better control with these, myabe it's becuase they aren't as wide?

I notice it when it comes to laying flat tone, with the conte I always felt like the pencil was fighting with the paper and scratching it, which in turn made my tone looking streaky but with the wolffs it goes down as smooth as butter. I'll come back to conte's in half a year or something and see if they have improved but for now I'm gonna stick with the wolff's.