01-08-2014, 05:01 AM
hey smrrftt, just had a quick look through your sketchbook. Your progression is really showing, you can be proud of yourself. not trying to sound patronizing, it is just very obvious that you got way better.
I liked the morphed - dead eyed - face a lot and all the work you put into before comitting. Some of your pencils look a bit skewed to me. like you lean your head a lot to one side, when you draw with pencil. Like the first Loomis study in post #391. also sometimes the eyes of your faces seem to be on another line than the nose or mouth, which leads to slightly off-balanced-looking expressions. maybe studying more perspective would do the trick for that. I can recommend the CTRL Paint tutorials by Matt Kohr, but I am sure you have tons of ressources already ^^
Other than that I can only give you the tip I got myself a month ago. that is to do every study twice. once from reference, then again from memory. It makes you pay more attention when doing the first study and forces you to really rely and test what you learned in the second study.
Just keep pushing yourself, you came a long way already. Just be honest about your shortcomings like you have been and it will be good.
cheers,
Flo
I liked the morphed - dead eyed - face a lot and all the work you put into before comitting. Some of your pencils look a bit skewed to me. like you lean your head a lot to one side, when you draw with pencil. Like the first Loomis study in post #391. also sometimes the eyes of your faces seem to be on another line than the nose or mouth, which leads to slightly off-balanced-looking expressions. maybe studying more perspective would do the trick for that. I can recommend the CTRL Paint tutorials by Matt Kohr, but I am sure you have tons of ressources already ^^
Other than that I can only give you the tip I got myself a month ago. that is to do every study twice. once from reference, then again from memory. It makes you pay more attention when doing the first study and forces you to really rely and test what you learned in the second study.
Just keep pushing yourself, you came a long way already. Just be honest about your shortcomings like you have been and it will be good.
cheers,
Flo