08-05-2014, 12:42 AM
Great sketchbook man. Love the traditional stuff. The portraits look great structurally and anatomically but I think you could focus a bit more on nailing the likeness. Something that is helping me get better at this is doing caricatures believe it or not. The practice of finding the little unique things about a persons face and exaggerating them forces you to be more aware of those features when drawing realistically. Its the same as exaggerating gestures the way Proko advised in one of his videos. It'll hone your observation skill to that next level after you to plateau in skill. Its easier to start with people that have obvious unique features like a big nose and long face. But as you do more you can try out doing people with very average faces which is the biggest challenge for caricaturing.