Quick Question: Can you please check my proportions its driving my crazy!!

David Wakelin

Hi guys,

just sculpting a head for my character, but the proportions seem to be off and i really cant figure out where/why.

if you can quickly look over it and spare two minutes, it would be greatly appreciated.

Its a male sculpt, but still looks quite feminine...






Cheers!

Nosslak

I'm not a character artist but I think the jaw should be a lot more angular like this:

Good luck!

leopadua3d

Hi,
As it happens with Nosslak, I'm not a character artist myself, but I found a few images with proportions being illustrated. I think u need to check it all around. I believe the distance of corner to eye to base of ear is 2 eyes (side view), for instance.

Now, there is a much more important point. What character are you doing? I mean, if you are doing a "sweet boy" you want female characteristics such as round chin. If you are doing a bad ass army guy, you want what Nosslak pointed: very angular jaw... So it also depends on what your intentions are.

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/estet_art/23460253/36817/36817_1000.jpg
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs12/f/2006/340/8/b/Face_Patterns_Tutorial_by_Snigom.jpg

Keep up!

leopadua3d

Forgot to mention one thing... the most remarkable 3D works on characters, are actually exaggerated figures, on purpose. Not to the point of becoming bizarre, but they ain't vanilla forms by any means.

gray

many people use Andrew Loomis as a good general proportion guide. you can look up some images on google or buy one of his books.