Lyraina's sketchbook

[Warburton]

In fairness it's coming along nicely, I know it's frustrating but stick with it because that's were all the learning takes place and it's really cool that your pushing yourself. It's mainly the eyes which look off. Perhaps chill on all the folds of the dress too. While they look awesome there's so much detail the eye has trouble finding places to rest.

As for the zooming in and out thing, perhaps try and force yourself to stay zoomed out while painting it, and tread the zooming in phase as like icing on the cake (if that makes sense). I can be tough as it's always so tempting to zoom in there all get all those details but chances are, all those details probably wont even get looked at in the end, it'll be the big shapes and values which truly sell the piece and certain focal areas. Pnates portraits are a really good example of this when you see how few strokes go into making his forms read so well. Plus when your zoomed in, you cant see how your work is effecting the piece as a whole, so you have no idea whether what your doing is truly helping the piece as a whole. Just a thought anyway, hope it helps in some way lol.

Really looking forward to seeing more updates, love watching your progress. And yeah, i'll drop you a link when i sign up for the perspective thing, thanks ;)