07-14-2014, 09:38 AM
Hypnagogic_Haze - Thank you! I haven't done caricatures, but I have been drawing sketch portraits at fairs this year. I've recently started to learn caricature, though I am rather nervous about doing it after hearing a number of horror stories about artists getting harrassed by unhappy customers, or having women bursting into tears. (Though I think that would be somewhat less of an issue in the UK.)
Adzerak - Thank you! I try to work with the big shapes of the head and play with them, lots of fun. Thank you so much for the crits on the demon picture too. Been working on some very small skin variations (cooling down 'fleshy' areas and warming some areas with blood vessels/subsurface scattering more), as well as pushing the cools further in the shadow. I ramped up that red light too, and I think it has definitely kicked the final product up a notch.
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Really big mixture of stuff in here, pretty sketch heavy. Been trying to get a handle on the unwieldy pentel brush pen some, with mixed results.
OK, updated the demon picture as per Adzerak's suggestions!
And here is where I ended up with the garbage punk guy. It was an interesting experiment with colouring under the sketch, at least.
Composition studies from book covers
Bridgman skele-booty studies. I AM FINALLY ONTO LEGS. Oh pelvis what mysteries you hold with your confusing shapes.
Had a shot at celebrity caricatures, which I generally am not happy with. Maybe a bit of an off day. Though, I was stunned to discover Eminem actually has really fantastic facial structure. Best cheekbones.
Ellipses... not going to post any more of these until I move onto something different because let's face it how many damn sheets of ellipses do we need.
Photostudy... currently at about 2 hours. Going to try and push this to finished and really clean up those forms. It is a weirdly blown out picture, but the overall shapes, and the very treacherous chin angle were why I picked it. Also I just need more practise with women.
Sketches from wandering around town and forest. Weirdly found more animals in the town (a big moth hanging out on the wall and a robin that perched on the bench next to me) than in the forest.
Imaginative sketching!
Portrait practises. All ten mins with the old lady at about 20 because she was fun to draw.
Studies from photos, again just practising my sketching really. Those I am trying to add more repitile-y things to my visual library to help with drawing dragons. Oh, and the brown paper book is my homemade sketchbook.
Pushing those still life studies further. 2 hours, more challenging colours, more objects. I tried to use a lumpy brush to force myself not to get tied up with details and focus on light shapes.
Adzerak - Thank you! I try to work with the big shapes of the head and play with them, lots of fun. Thank you so much for the crits on the demon picture too. Been working on some very small skin variations (cooling down 'fleshy' areas and warming some areas with blood vessels/subsurface scattering more), as well as pushing the cools further in the shadow. I ramped up that red light too, and I think it has definitely kicked the final product up a notch.
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Really big mixture of stuff in here, pretty sketch heavy. Been trying to get a handle on the unwieldy pentel brush pen some, with mixed results.
OK, updated the demon picture as per Adzerak's suggestions!
And here is where I ended up with the garbage punk guy. It was an interesting experiment with colouring under the sketch, at least.
Composition studies from book covers
Bridgman skele-booty studies. I AM FINALLY ONTO LEGS. Oh pelvis what mysteries you hold with your confusing shapes.
Had a shot at celebrity caricatures, which I generally am not happy with. Maybe a bit of an off day. Though, I was stunned to discover Eminem actually has really fantastic facial structure. Best cheekbones.
Ellipses... not going to post any more of these until I move onto something different because let's face it how many damn sheets of ellipses do we need.
Photostudy... currently at about 2 hours. Going to try and push this to finished and really clean up those forms. It is a weirdly blown out picture, but the overall shapes, and the very treacherous chin angle were why I picked it. Also I just need more practise with women.
Sketches from wandering around town and forest. Weirdly found more animals in the town (a big moth hanging out on the wall and a robin that perched on the bench next to me) than in the forest.
Imaginative sketching!
Portrait practises. All ten mins with the old lady at about 20 because she was fun to draw.
Studies from photos, again just practising my sketching really. Those I am trying to add more repitile-y things to my visual library to help with drawing dragons. Oh, and the brown paper book is my homemade sketchbook.
Pushing those still life studies further. 2 hours, more challenging colours, more objects. I tried to use a lumpy brush to force myself not to get tied up with details and focus on light shapes.