05-23-2017, 10:20 AM
Hello Federclown!
I think you have some idea of where your work needs improvement. If you're having trouble with hair, do some studies of hair. Get a bunch of ref and see if you can figure out how to draw it in a way that satisfies you. In particular it can help to use the same ref image and use different strategies to tackle it.
To suggest a couple, here's Proko's take on hair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHewz3JbKrQ
And here is James Gurney's thoughts: http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2008/0...g-mop.html
Also, there's no way around it, that you must do some measuring and checking to get faces looking right. Looking closely at the eyes, for example, on the bottom images, they are not similar enough in their angles. The cheek comes too far out. The curve of the nose isn't right. These all have the same cause, not measuring relative sizes, positions, and not measuring angles. There's no skipping this step. People who have been doing this stuff for a while eventually do it in their head or by eye, but you have to do it externally first with your pencil.
Using triangulation with angles you can get quite far if your angles are precise but always check with measuring. This image is from the book Drawing in the Digital Age.
![[Image: drawing-in-the-digital-age-textbook-chap...1484258096]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/ca233digitalagechapter2a2016-170112215256/95/drawing-in-the-digital-age-textbook-chapter-2a-2016-15-638.jpg?cb=1484258096)
Check these links out sometime:
http://www.dorian-iten.com/accuracy/
http://www.dorian-iten.com/howtodraw/
I think you have some idea of where your work needs improvement. If you're having trouble with hair, do some studies of hair. Get a bunch of ref and see if you can figure out how to draw it in a way that satisfies you. In particular it can help to use the same ref image and use different strategies to tackle it.
To suggest a couple, here's Proko's take on hair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHewz3JbKrQ
And here is James Gurney's thoughts: http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2008/0...g-mop.html
Also, there's no way around it, that you must do some measuring and checking to get faces looking right. Looking closely at the eyes, for example, on the bottom images, they are not similar enough in their angles. The cheek comes too far out. The curve of the nose isn't right. These all have the same cause, not measuring relative sizes, positions, and not measuring angles. There's no skipping this step. People who have been doing this stuff for a while eventually do it in their head or by eye, but you have to do it externally first with your pencil.
Using triangulation with angles you can get quite far if your angles are precise but always check with measuring. This image is from the book Drawing in the Digital Age.
Check these links out sometime:
http://www.dorian-iten.com/accuracy/
http://www.dorian-iten.com/howtodraw/