Peter's Sketchbook

[Peter]

i did my take on the "butt ugly" portrait, just added my preference in eye shapes and changed some of the shadow mapping. I think the biggest issue is her skull shape, its jutting out the frontalis and her cranium is smushed like its in straight view when its more 3/4. It makes her hairline look super thin and creepy like IT the Clown from the movie. Also the shadow shapes you chose might have been accurate on the photo, but i think it isnt a good one, its rigid and pointy. I think a simpler smaller shape works better, and on her lips, always delete as many indications of age on a female.


Look how very very little the tone eric uses around the mouth and cheek area. every line ages a woman 10 years. Ive met girls who are 30 and say, "i hope i die before i get too old"

also widened out her hair shape to make it fuller and sexier. you have to start embellishing your work and stylizing to make it look more appealing. when you draw the forehead, fuck this balloon shape youre doing, where you have this like Airheads logo kinda thing going. Straight lines, angular, only use round lines for gesture or where necessary like a gastrocnemius indication. Have the circles be implied like in the reilly abstraction between the edges of the brow pivoting between the keystone. I cant tell you how mucha  money shot that eyebrow thing is, get it the fuck down

None of these, indications of the cheek shadows near the crease of the nose, unless the woman is quite old. even then, dial it the fuck back. 

The elvgrin piece is interesting, her (right) arm looks funky, like its too high up and the mass of the deltoid is too small. Her face is looking cute, her head is a bit big, but you are in the ballpark with her face and shape design. Elvgrin is a great influence, yours already has great lips, great eyebrows/eyelashes (nice exaggeration) nose etc. Study him lots, lots of elvgrin pinup heads till you can draw them from memory and apply those shapes to the "butt ugly" people you draw from reference ;)

Thanks for the paint over man. :)

These butt ugly drawings are actually from life (yikes). All of my worst drawings seem to be from life and I honestly don't know why. I think it doesn't help that I'm going to these classes straight from work and don't have the time to warm up. I can get about 30 mins in of drawing during my lunch but that's about it.

As I said in my last update and just to reiterate what you said but I'm gonna spend alot of my time now working soley on master studies, both longer efforts like the full elvgren pin up and shorter ones which I've mainly been doing on work, working on sections of a master study such as the features until I can start ingraining their shape design into my head and start utilising in my own work.