hey guys I need your help, my likeness skills are not as well tuned as Id like them to be. so any help you can offer would be great.
since its for print im going for bigger forms and not as minuet detail. I want to emphasize/caricature-ize his likeness a bit so that it will be obviously him even if its a 6in tall sculpture.
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The head is raised a bit in the top left reference and you copied the features, but not the angle of the head.
Right now the overall impression is a bit more heroic than the references.
If you're going for that that's fine, of course.
To get a better likeness, aside from matching up proportions, pay closer attention to the references because you seem to model more generic forms that you know, than what you see. (E.g. eyebrows, lips, ears )
I'd say his slightly crooked smile seems to be very characteristic, so I'd try to capture that. If you can close the lips like slosh suggested that's fine, as long as the expression is still recognizable. Else I'd keep the open mouth.
Don't mix references from different facial expressions if you don't know exactly what you are doing.
Other than that it's looking really great so far!
Thanks alot for the thoughtfull crits, i took as much of your advice into consideration as possible and eventually i just had to call it done cause my dads birthday was like two weeks ago heheh.
so heres the final in TB2
and just got the email from Moddler saying theyll be sending it out tonight.
judging by the pic they sent me the print came out perfect.