Lizardman's art journey to glory!

[chubby_cat]

Hey! Nice sketchbook so far. With your most recent portrait study, a reason it's not matching the ref is because you've elongated the face a lot, especially in the chin. You've made a massive space between chin and bottom lip, which ends up pushing all the other features further up the face and making the nose is shorter than what it should be. It's great that you've started adding shadows to define volume, but be careful with how clear it reads - your shading on the outer corners of the eyes is very confusing because there's no real sense of what is shading, and where the hair starts (which just makes it look like the hair line starts at the end of the brows)

My real takeaway is just to watch your proportions in your next studies. The whole measure twice cut once theory. It all comes down to looots of practice and observations. Keep up the good work and looking forward to seeing more!