Peter's Sketchbook

[Peter]

well good try id say, theres a lot of small things that arent helping the elvgrin girl

For one the originals eyebrows are both thicker and a different shape, her outermose brow in yours has a horizontal slant and in the reference its a hard diagonal. For your cheeck, its bumpy and large near the jaw area, which looks masculine, and hers has that devilishly subtle curve that makes it look feminine.

The way you drew her jaw is jutting out and elvgrins is again that devilishly soft jawline which is super important for young pretty women. You should refine her eyes more, the lashes have no volume, and i can see how you think thats the right shape but you need to fool with the edges on the lashes a bit to make them look less thin.

Also her nose should be smaller, your nose could overlap her eye, which in the original, the nose could not overlap the eye.. but yea, try to touch that up in photoshop just to see if you can do it with every tool at your disposal that lets you be flexible just to see yourself make a pretty face; even if it takes hours or days, those subtle things will go a long way to helping your future efforts not suffer these little "butt ugly" booboos

Thanks for the detailed response, didn't realise that I made so many little mistakes! God I don't understand why drawing attractive females is so hard for me. Care to hit me over the head with a stick until it clicks?

I like your suggestion btw, I'll give it ago in photoshop tomorrow.