Tyger sketches

[Tygerson]

Did you do any thumbnailing from imagination for this pose, or just start drawing from the photo? it looks like you grabbed the reference before deciding on what you wanted for the pose and I think that's where the emotional disconnect is coming from. Gotta tell the story before making it look pretty/accurate!
I'd definitely try giving her torso more of a tilt so she's leaning in to be close to the falcon, and maybe tilting her head up so she can look straight at it instead of looking up with her eyes, to me that seems like she's less interested

Thanks for the feedback! I especially like to hear it in these early phases, when it's still easy to fix stuff. I did do a whole bunch of thumbnails from imagination before heading out with a camera, but they weren't very good. My focus was on the thing the falcon was bringing, rather than her relationship with her bird. That's where I missed the boat!

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Some more work with this. Even closer with the faces. I moved the falcon down and onto her forearm so they could look more straight on at each other. Anatomy fail--will fix later.






Some of the rejected refs. Maybe they're better. I'm not really sure: